Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gaffe that has helped sink previous presidential campaigns: Barry Goldwater's 1964 proposal to make Social Security voluntary and George McGovern's 1972 recommendation that the Government pay every American $1,000 a year. Above an editorial at tacking the scheme, New Hampshire's Portsmouth Herald last week carried the headline REAGAN DIGS HIS OWN GRAVE. Although federal taxes would be decreased, Gerald Ford's campaign aides-and Democrats-point out that state and local taxes would soar...
...advertisements for the biography. It is no secret around New Hampshire that Cash once had a drinking problem and was dismissed by the Union Leader in 1959. "Nobody ever drank more than Kevin-he was a real newspaperman," says Jimmy Breslin, an old colleague from Cash's Herald Tribune days, who encouraged him in the project. Cash readily admits that he was fired-for showing up drunk to cover a golf match -but swears he has not had a drink in two years. Says he: "I gave up everything for this. I thought it was about time somebody stood...
...Free Press, he had won an American Bar Association award. Most important, he was the millionaire grandson and a presumed heir of John S. Knight, 81, founder of the Knight-Rider Newspapers Inc., the chain that includes some 35 daily papers, such as the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald and the morning Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as the News. Unknown to most of his friends, the chunky bachelor was also a homosexual who frequented the nearby "merry-go-round" area of the city, where he sought out male prostitutes and dropped in at leather bars. Apparently, last week this...
...there was none, a file was opened on each such critic. Roosevelt ordered the FBI to put taps on the home telephones of three or four of his closest advisers, including Harry Hopkins. F.D.R. suspected that Hopkins' wife was passing anti-Administration information to the receptive Washington Times-Herald...
However the approach might be categorized, it works. In the past seven years, Bloomingdale's Manhattan store alone has increased sales by more than 50%, to about $160 million, v. the same for Macy's Herald Square store (with twice the selling space) and $85 million for Gimbel's 33rd Street store. By the retail accountant's measurement, Bloomingdale's gets $350 of sales this year out of each square foot of floor space?about four times the average for all U.S. department stores. Profits are not reported separately, but Federated has consistently kept as after-tax profit about...