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...Fred M. Hechinger, who last week landed three education stories on Page One (one morning last week, the Times devoted three inside pages to education news). The New York Herald Tribune's Terry Ferrer (sister of Actor Mel Ferrer) has a staff of two, and last week the Trib gave full play to the beginning of her exhaustive, five-part study of U.S. colleges and universities. On the Minneapolis Star, the education beat is covered in depth: one man for higher education, another at the secondary and elementary level, still another staffer who keeps busy supervising the 35 high...
Tangle Towns came to New York about five years ago, through the benevolent agency of the New York Herald Tribune. The Trib has a circulation of 400,000 or so, and has not made money for a number of years. As Time magazine has remarked in reporting the Trib's innumerable personnel changes, the paper is squeezed between the "lordly" Times (circulation, 600,000) and the ever-popular Daily News (circulation, 2,000,000). The Tribune is uncomfortable in the middle, and passes through alternating cycles of social-climbing and slumming. Tangle Towns was inaugurated during one of the periods...
Still others hit the history angle, and would work from the clues. They took the attitude--encouraged by the Trib--that Tangle Towns was essentially an educational game, and would pick up an interesting and useful bit of information about each alphabetical mess they had deciphered. And others would work with maps and things...
...horde of untanglers invaded the New York Public Library to pore over gazetteers, atlases and encyclopedias; then they began to tear pages out of the books, for home use. The Library people became alarmed; through the Trib--ever eager for publicity--they issued an appeal for restraint and respect for public property. This didn't work, so they removed the gazetteers, atlases and encyclopedie from the shelves...
...contest finally ended, with so many perfect scores that the Trib didn't even bother to print the names. The affair was, in fact, an early symptom of quiz show cheating and payola, but no one knew it at the time. The Tribune finally decided on a tie-breaking device: a huge page full of letters and names of towns. Contestants were supposed to compile as many names as they could with the available list and the available letters; there was a complicated scoring system. At this point, many people decided the hell with it (particularly the educational types...