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Last week the New York Herald Tribune was mercifully killed after a 20-year illness for which there was no longer any cure. Cursed by a second 114-day strike in three years, the Trib's owners examined its future. The pre-strike circulation of 303,000 seemed likely to slip to 200,000, half their break-even point. Advertising would certainly decline; editorial staffers had already deserted in droves. There was little of tangible value left, except the paper's past great reputation...
...reporter, took over as owner and editor of the Tribune. His son, Ogden, succeeded him in 1912, and twelve years later bought the Herald. Almost immediately, the new Herald Tribune glowed with a circulation that nearly surpassed the combined total of its two predecessors. Without stopping to start, the Trib had reached the top: a great paper serving a great city-and the world...
...could make some pointed suggestions. A correspondent whose copy lacked enough punctuation once received a full typed page of commas. And in his book, City Editor, Walker wrote, "Pick adjectives as you would pick a diamond or a mistress." Some argue that Walker was outdone by his successor, the Trib's other celebrated Texan, Lessing Engelking, whose yen for accuracy was such that he once ordered a reporter to spend all night in Brooklyn searching for someone's middle initial. Another Trib veteran recalls: "I wrote a story about a woman having 'a breast' amputated...
...recent years, rumors that the New York Herald Tribune would fold have appeared with more regularity than the paper. Last week the stories seemed closer to being true than ever before. As a result of the 16-week strike that has silenced the Trib since it became part of the merged World Journal Tribune Inc., an estimated three-quarters of the Trib's key staffers have drifted away to other jobs; the rest have now been quietly advised to start looking elsewhere. At week's end, W.J.T.. President Matt Meyer said that the Trib's fate...
...League Draft. The resulting roster, however, left the New York Herald Tribune perilously short of staffers. To replace them, Trib editors had to fill the ranks with reporters from the afternoon paper. "It was the greatest draft since the big-league baseball teams were raided for men to make up the Mets," said World Journal Editor Frank Conniff, who sat down with Trib editors to parcel out the players. Hardly recognizing the names of some of the staffers they were acquiring, Trib editors simply had to take their chances...