Word: trib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just when the story seemed about to sag, enterprising journalism revived it. Desperate Reporter Desmond and the Chicago Tribune's Norma Browning got a scoop on Mee's moody diaries, by putt-putting out to the yacht in a launch and swiping them. The Daily News and Trib rushed juicy excerpts into print, and the press feverishly tracked down the sexy-looking women that Mee, as a PT boat skipper, had saluted with purple poesy and erotic prose. One (whom he called "Tirana") was a nightclub singer named Lorraine De Wood; the Daily News found her in Milwaukee...
...Newman moved, a tourist disclosed a fine compliment that was paid the Trib by Premier Stalin himself. The week before, at a midnight interview in the Kremlin, Minnesota's Harold Stassen had asked how come the Herald Tribune could not get a man into Moscow. Said Stalin, after a quick check with Molotov: "A part of the American correspondents have an ill mood toward us. But this Herald Tribune case is an accident. It is an outstanding newspaper." (It was an outstanding accident, for the paper had been trying to get a man to Moscow for more than...
...Visitor Stassen had not mentioned other hardship cases. Asked the Philadelphia Bulletin's blunt Carl McArdle: "Governor, are you on the Herald Tribune payroll?" No, Stassen grinned, he had just happened to run into Geoffrey Parsons Jr., editor of the Paris edition, who had told him about the Trib's troubles...
...American Society of Newspaper Editors (which the report had criticized as a do-nothing group). But Forrest's own paper, the New York Herald Tribune (he is its assistant editor) argued that the commission's findings could not be dismissed as "mere professional whimsy." Said the Trib: the press does have a responsibility to its public, a responsibility that outweighs a publisher's caprices, and "this responsibility is often neglected or flouted...
Even so, Dr. Mackenzie's revelation meant that the U.S. was no longer the only nation in the world to possess the wherewithal for making The Bomb. And the problems of eventual international control were growing while the Security Council talked. Trib Correspondent Peter Kihss reported that at least eight other nations have Government-sponsored programs of some significance, and that at least 14 more have already produced or located the vital raw materials...