Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evening Pie & Pieces Present Totals 276,000 World-Telegram 200,000 440,000 Sun 15,000 300,000 Journal 30.000 680.000 Post . 5,000 102,000 Sunday Now WORLD 492,000 Times 50,000 807,997 Herald Tribune. . . . 100,000 540,000 American 200,000 1,250,000 Sunday News...
...larger interest than Scripps-Howard's purchase in El Paso will be its last purchase before that. The profession will be asking about, discussing the first "shakedown" figures on the daring purchase of the New York World by the S-H chain's ace, the New York Telegram...
...advertising lineage the World-Telegram got practically all of the Evening World's. The American got the morning want ads-a juicy chunk of business. Among the others the Times seemed to show the greatest gain, the Herald Tribune, and Daily News ranking next. But the newspapers' excited advertisements in each other's pages, and the Easter trade, made all advertising figures inconclusive...
Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New-York World-Telegram, as part of his daily stint, related a story which "a priest told me of Cardinal Gibbons. . . . When he returned from Rome a newspaper friend asked him: 'Now that you have been to the Vatican do you still believe in the infallibility of the Pope?' and Cardinal Gibbons smiled and said : 'Well, he called me Jibbons.' " The identical story had been told by Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont at last fortnight's Academy of Political Science dinner for Walter Lippmann (TIME, March 30). At that dinner...
...complete the Tribune's discomfiture, Journalist Heywood Broun of the New York World-Telegram devoted a day's column to the obituary, saying: "The incident raises the whole question of what differentiation should be made between criticism of the quick and of the dead. It is familiar journalistic practice to take back a great deal about any opponent as soon as he has safely departed from life. I think this constitutes a faulty method...