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...single issue. With less space to play with, the Herald Tribune still broke out in a rash of eight stories, as well as a Page One editorial blaming the decline on President Kennedy ("Unease about Mr. Kennedy's course is undeniably a major factor"). Hearst's Journal-American waved one streamer after another, in appropriate red ink. But behind all this breathless coverage lay a fact in which few U.S. papers could take pride. By a country mile, they had missed the biggest financial story of the year...
...Daily News, Times, Post, Journal-American, Wall Street Journal...
...Sense of Service. Such criticism does not disturb John Hohenberg, 56, the Advisory Board's secretary and a 32-year veteran of New York newspapering (World, Journal-American, Post}. "The principal impact of the Pulitzer prizes on American journalism," says Hohenberg, 'has been to develop within the American newspaper a sense of public service." Chances are that despite the impact of the Pulitzer prizes, journalism's sense of public service has always been there. The prizes were founded in an era when such journalistic crusaders as Lincoln Steffens and Joseph Pulitzer himself loomed larger than life...
...saying by suggestion," and thought the play "has a self-consciousness in its studied madness that can be unfortunately tiresome." James Davis (Daily News) shrugged the show off as "a total bust. Playwright Kopit seems to have a funny sense of humor--funny peculiar." And John McClain (Journal-American) called it "every bit as perverse and nonsensical as the title...
...actual score among the daily critics when they reviewed Subways Are for Sleeping was three negatives (Kerr, Taubman, and John McClain of the Journal-American) against three positives (Watts, Chapman, and Robert Coleman of the Mirror), with the World-Telegram's Norman Nadel hanging in the air. Said the real Kerr: "Limp." Quoth the real Taubman: "Stumbles as if suffering from somnambulism...dull and vapid...