Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...erroneously credit the Wall Street Journal with scoring a scoop in July on the fact that a 7-lb. TV camera developed by Westinghouse was scheduled to provide live coverage on the first Apollo manned mission to the moon [Aug. 19]. Aviation Week printed the first story on this camera and its moon mission Jan. 10, and ran a picture of the camera a week later, along with the story that NASA was studying the feasibility of converting its black and white capability to color for transmission from the lunar surface...
...months. Word was out that the New York newspaper strike was over at last. The pressmen, last of the squabbling unions to make peace, had finally settled; the stereotypers were scheduled to vote approval of their contract at week's end. The long-deferred New York World Journal Tribune was actually getting ready to put out a newspaper, and Conniff's phone rang constantly. Columnist after columnist wanted to ask his new boss for the honor of appearing in the first issue...
Conniff handled his callers with the good humor, occasional exasperation and unflagging optimism of a man delighted to be back on the job. The new paper, he conceded, would combine most of the features of the three papers it absorbed: the Herald Tribune, the World-Telegram, the Journal-American. "We're not going to emulate any one of them," said Conniff, as he planned for an eight-column layout with abundant white space on weekdays, a six-column page on Sundays. "This paper will look like itself...
...will have a calculated familiarity for old Trib readers, as it gives prominence to Columnists Dick Schaap, Art Buchwald and Jimmy Breslin. Pages 2 and 3 of the second section will contain the editorials and a constantly changing panorama of other columnists-for all the world like the departed Journal-American...
...World Journal Tribune will be strong in its feature departments, largely because of the people pulled in from the Trib. Only in the drama section is Conniff still floundering. The New York Times got the Trib's Walter Kerr, and the W.J.T. is still searching for a critic. The job was offered to Judith Crist, who turned it down in favor of films. "That's where the action is," she says. "The snob appeal of theater reviewing is lost on me." The Trib's Eugenia Sheppard will edit the woman's page; her staff will boast...