Word: trib
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what about The Kid Himself? Wolfe is 34 and the dirty golden thatch is beginning to recede. Speaking about some older writers on the Trib, he says, "They say those guys get paid off, but that's not it. They're old. They lose perspective. They get strangled synapses in the brain." Discussing one recent Tribune features star who got sacked, Wolfe laments, "He had a rugged drinking problem... Old men can't take that. Young men drink. Yes." Sometimes he talks rather wildly about looking forward to growing old, "Old men can really cut loose. You should see those...
...hired boy," and he resigned in 1929. By then, the World was approaching its end-which Swope helped to bring on. Sensation seekers came to feel the paper was too pretentiously intellectual, and defected to the tabloids. The intelligentsia found it lightweight, and defected to the Times and Herald Trib une. Swope had got out just in time...
Well, not quite all the backs. At week's end the financially hard-pressed Herald Tribune decided it was losing revenues over what were beside-the-point issues to everyone but the New York Times. In a "Dear John" letter, Trib President Walter N. Thayer told Gaherin that his paper was resigning from the association and resuming publication this week. He traced the decision back to what he called the association's "unrealistic" settlement with the printers' union last March...
...Chicago Sun-Times, which Field had taken over from his father in 1950, was not only making a profit after long years in the red, it was also closing in on the front-running Chicago Tribune. A serious and responsible tabloid, the Sun-Times was even outselling the Trib within the city limits of Chicago. Field's second paper, the Chicago Daily News, which he bought for $24 million from the Knight Newspapers in 1959, was not making as much money as the Sun-Times, but it was gaining in reputation. "I think newspapers should speak to the orchestra...
...dashes off a review, headline and all, in as little time as 15 minutes. Why her violent reactions? Explains Claudia: "My strong opinions about anything bad originate from the fact that it makes me suffer so much. It makes me desperate. It kills me." When she retires, the Trib will pay a high compliment to her energy and enterprise. It will assign two men to cover the beat that until now has been handled by one woman...