Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his distaste for journalists, Powell in 1982 became a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald and a commentator for ABC News. For the first time since he joined the ranks of reporters, Powell may once more become a major topic of conversation among them...
...year ago, the Council for Florida Libraries, the Friends of the Monroe County Library, and the Miami Herald decided to hold one of their book-and-author events in Key West. The local luminaries gladly volunteered to divulge an opinion or two. The quiet little chat over coffee cups that was planned turned into a verbal extravaganza after a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., travel agency put together a package tour. "It ended up an incredible thing," says Travel Agent Judy Twyford. "People don't want to just sit by the pool any more, they want to get together and talk...
...critical semaphores who direct the traffic of literature and who sit in their warm blinds and blast me regularly like a sitting duck, which I am. Now this is going to be one duck with brass knuckles." After serving as a World War II correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, he wrote columns for Figaro Litteraire, Punch, the Daily Mail of London and any number of American newspapers to finance the restless trips that took over his life. He covered everything from political conventions to the Viet Nam War, which he supported nearly to the bitter end. By then...
When Murdoch bought 7% of Warner's stock last month for $98 million, he insisted that it was only an "investment." But that claim sounded suspicious coming from a grand acquisitor. Murdoch has already bought the New York Post (for $30 million), the Boston Herald ($1 million plus a share of future profits) and the Chicago Sun-Times ($90 million) and established a sprawling publishing empire with assets of $1.5 billion that now includes more than 80 newspapers and magazines in the U.S., Britain and Australia. Wall Street immediately began to wonder if Murdoch wanted to charge into...
...Hairston turned to the court of public opinion. He began by enlisting a new "old-boy network" of black journalists. As a result, a black reporter on the Dallas Times Herald went to the city editor, who assigned the story to Susan Milstein, then on the paper's courthouse beat. At first she was leery: "People call all the time saying, 'My brother is in jail and it's a case of mistaken identity.' " But she quickly became intrigued: "I could not understand why all of these middle-aged white engineers were so upset. They were...