Word: heralds
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...journalists at Harvard has carried high prestige. Nieman fellowships offered newsmen an academic year of leisured study and exposure to prominent people with provocative viewpoints. More recently, however, some Nieman fellows have been critical of Dwight Sargent, 55, a former editorial-page editor for the old New York Herald Tribune, who has been the Nieman curator since 1964. Under Sargent, it is said, the program has lacked the verve it had under the 25-year leadership of Louis Lyons. Now Sargent has resigned, and will be replaced in September by James Thomson, 40, Harvard history lecturer and a perceptive Asian...
Going abroad this summer? Afraid of losing touch with what's happening at home? Not to worry. Whether you wind up in Brussels or Bangkok, the International Herald Tribune will tell you about Charlie Brown's latest hangup, what Chrysler stock is selling for, whether Willie Mays homered for the Mets, who won the Democratic presidential nomination and how, and what columnists from Art Buchwald to Bill Buckley make...
...world. It is read with respect in the power centers of Europe, where English is now the second language. Nineteen copies a day go to Peking, and the Kremlin also subscribes. Editor Murray "Buddy" Weiss, 48, who was the last managing editor of the New York Herald Tribune, talks of a "mid-Atlantic viewpoint" that implies a degree of detachment from both the U.S. and Europe...
...many ways the Trib lives up to its claim of being "not fundamentally an American newspaper published abroad, but a newspaper published abroad by Americans," though its parentage is mongrelized, though a plethora of bylines now appears, Weiss manages nonetheless to keep something of the old New York Herald Tribune's tone. It is serious, but not solemn. If New Yorkers notice a familiar rhythm to some of the editorials, they are not imagining things. Harry Baehr, 64, once the New York paper's chief editorial writer, still contributes a few editorials each week-writing from New York...
...James Gordon Bennet Jr., self-exiled son of the New York Herald's founder, started the paper in 1887 as the Paris edition of the Herald. In 1935 it became the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, which it still strongly resembles in typography. After the parent paper died in 1966, Publisher John Hay Whitney took on the Post and Times as partners in the Paris survivor...