Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joseph Kress, 44, a proud Navy mother in Dubuque, Iowa, walked into the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald newsroom with a little item for the paper's servicemen's column. She had a letter from her son, James J. Kress, 20, a fireman aboard the U.S. destroyer Richard S. Edwards, and she wanted Jimmy's friends to know where he was. The letter began: "Dear Mom and Dad: In case you haven't heard the names of those destroyers that were attacked in the Tonkin Gulf last Friday night, they were the R. S. Edwards and the Morton...
...Telegraph-Herald was delighted to run Jimmy's letter; indeed, to Mrs. Kress's great astonishment, the letter made the front pages of newspapers all over the U.S. For the most part, it contained a lively, although almost certainly inaccurate account of the mysterious Sept. 18th destroyer action in the Tonkin Gulf. Wrote young Kress: "We picked up about seven contacts on the radar screen. The Edwards blew two of them out of the water for certain and shot up another one. I don't know if the Morton destroyed any or not. One of them boats...
...press car at the rear of the motorcade, Robert H. Jackson, a Dallas Times Herald photographer, saw a rifle being slowly drawn back through an open window. Directly across from the building, Amos Lee Euins, a 15-year-old ninth-grade student, saw a man shoot twice from a window; Euins hid behind a bench...
...after weeks of frantic preparation, Macy's opened its newest store, an $11 million building in New Haven. It was the second such opening this year, and it brings the total of Macy's stores to 48, which stretch from its famous home on Manhattan's Herald Square to branches as far south as Sea Island, Ga., and as far west as San Francisco...
Along with expanded stores, increased services, and training courses to make its 30,000 employees more helpful and friendly (Herald Square has sales clerks who sell in 42 languages). Chairman Straus is also concentrating on eliminating Mrs. Macy's most oft-voiced complaint: not getting ordered merchandise because of faulty addresses or overenthusiastic promises of early delivery. Charge cards, which Macy's adopted only five years ago, have helped correct the first cause. To cure the second, Macy's now drills its salespeople to be realistic with customers as well as friendly...