Word: trib
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keep On Writing. A redhead from Southern Illinois, Claudia Cassidy studied journalism at the University of Illinois, wrote reviews for Chicago's Journal of Commerce and the Chicago Sun before moving to the Trib. After one of her slashing assaults on the Chicago Symphony brought 200 complaining letters to the Trib in a week, Claudia offered her resignation to Publisher Robert R. McCormick. Said the austere "Colonel": "Two hundred letters to the music department! You keep on writing," and he gave her a raise (she now earns about...
...Trib was piqued enough to offer an editorial answer the same day: "When Mr. Lippmann asks how many Viet Nams the U.S. can defend in Asia, perhaps the best reply is an indirect one. How many are there to be? And if we yield in the present confrontation, how much more difficult will be the next? For better or for worse, the U.S. is the 'policeman' on which the threatened peoples in China's expansionist path depend for whatever hope they have of independence and freedom...
After spending four months trying to break into journalism in Manhattan, Wolfe landed a $55-a-week reporter's job on the Springfield (Mass.) Union, moved on to the Washington Post, then went to work for the Trib...
...details. Best guess, however, was that Scripps-Howard's Telly and Hearst's J-A would merge, quite possibly under the editorial direction of the Journal. That would leave the New York Post the only other remaining afternoon paper. In addition, the Sunday edition of the Trib would combine with the Journal's Sunday paper (the Telly has no Sunday edition). At the same time, the papers are exploring the possibility of combined printing operations to cut production costs, and are considering building a new $25 million plant. Hopefully, these new arrangements would enable the papers...
...city dailies are fast dwindling, New York still has six of them-more than any other city in the U.S. But suburban papers, newsmagazines and radio and television have cut deeply into the circulation of all but the News and Times. From 1955 to 1964, the circulation of the Trib dropped from 340,462 to 307,674, the Journal sagged from 653,291 to 538,057, the Telegram from 570,275 to 403,340, the Post from 399,886 to 329,523; in that period, the Times rose 117,759, to 652,135, and the News climbed...