Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proceedings against Landis had been kept extraordinarily quiet by the Kennedy Administration-"boxed in excelsior," as the New York Herald Tribune put it. Newspaper reporters did not even know the hearing was scheduled until after it was over and Landis had departed. But they'll be there for his sentencing...
Then last week Yves St. Laurent threw open his salon and voila! the priestesses of high fashion rocketed into orbit. "It made a week of life on gilt ballroom chairs worthwhile," wrote the Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard. "St. Laurent has always known that what modern women really want to look like are little boys...
...full of totally rational publishers who never did a damn thing for their papers. Under Phil Graham, we at least had the potential of being a great newspaper, nationally and internationally." So spoke a Washington Post & Times Herald staffer last week, and many another stricken colleague echoed his impulsive obituary. If their reactions seemed curiously defiant, it was because their energetic, engaging boss, whose rapidly expanding press empire consisted of the Washington Post, News week, two art magazines, a pair of profitable TV stations and a burgeoning news service, had for more than a year been suffering from a mentalailment...
Phil Graham's impact was greater on the financial side. When he took over from Eugene Meyer in 1946, the Post was in grievous financial shape, while its gaudy opposition, Cissie Patterson's Times-Herald, was high on the hog. In 1949, after Mrs. Patterson's death, Meyer and his astute son-in-law tried in vain to buy the Times-Herald, but lost out to Colonel Bertie McCormick. In 1954, after a disastrous attempt to run it like a D.C. edition of his Chicago Tribune, McCormick sold his paper to Meyer...
...askew, that read "keep smiling." An American flag stood at his right and four fans hung from the ceiling. Only three worked, adding a strange accompaniment to the proceedings. The judge, with gray hair and a beaked nose, poured ice water continually into a glass, had the segregationist Albany Herald brought to him each day at about 3 P.M. which he diligently read for the following hour. Before making any pronouncement he shifted the tobacco in his mouth, spat, and then spoke in a creaking inaudible voice, that even counsel sitting in front of him had to strain to hear...