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...Chicago Tribune, which has never based one of its own men in Moscow, got around last week to setting up diplomatic relations. Off to cover Russia went William Moore, 55, a Trib veteran of nearly two decades' service, but not before the Trib squared the trip with its readers. Explained an editorial: "The Tribune's reason [for not staffing Moscow] has been simple. We did not think it worthwhile to subject one of our people to capricious despotism merely to make him a vehicle of Russian propaganda. Now the Russians say that they welcome correspondents and will...
Cell at the Trib. Other witnesses were less cooperative. Alden Whitman, 42, a Times copyreader since 1951, admitted having been a Communist from 1935 through 1948, but refused to name any other party members. After tough questioning, Counsel Sourwine pried out of him the admission that he had belonged to a Communist cell with "perhaps a half-dozen members" on the New York Herald Tribune while working there as a copyreader from 1943 to 1951. The Trib, which had been giving the hearings the splashiest play in town, grabbed Sourwine right after the session and later quoted him: "We have...
...violins. "For many years I have treasured the word 'great,' " the Daily News's John Chapman wrote. "This morning it belongs to Miss Harris." The Post's Richard Watts declared that he had "never seen a finer portrayal of Joan," and Walter Kerr of the Trib pronounced her "fiercely, wonderfully believable" in her "dazzling honesty." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called her a "fiery particle" and Joan "her finest, most touching performance...
Right Diet? Weekday circulation, stimulated in part by contests, has climbed steadily in the past year to an estimated 400,000, up some 60,000 from last October. The Trib's new weekly TV and Radio Magazine is still losing money, but it has helped jack Sunday circulation to 600,000, v. 528,253 a year ago. And the Trib's advertising linage last week was running 10% ahead of last year's level...
With the circulation and advertising gains, Brownie Reid believes that his diet for the Trib is already proving its success. Furthermore, the Herald Tribune Syndicate, which now has an alltime record total of 46 papers on its wire services and 835 mail customers, is making more money than ever before in its 31-year history. Said Reid last week: "We should stay in the black from...