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...covered modernist concerts for the tabloid Mirror while the more austere dailies were filling their columns with Rachmaninoff. Except for spells of teaching (at Mills and Brooklyn Colleges) and study (with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger), he has been at it ever since, is now the Herald Trib's most influential critic next to Critic-Composer (Four Saints in Three Acts) Virgil Thomson. On his days off, he has found time to compose a score of scores...
...Times four years later, covered the 1920 conventions, and has never missed a convention since. During the 1932 Democratic Convention, the rival New York Herald Tribune sent a scorching wire to its convention bureau: "The Times has beaten us again on everything. Can't you do something?" The Trib bureau manager did the best thing he could: he assigned a reporter to do nothing but cover Jim Hagerty...
...list is the Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart. Among several dozen others who rate high marks on his list: the Associated Press's Leif Erickson, Reuters' Ronald Bachelor, I.N.S. Correspondent Frank Conniff (the best for "atmospheric prose"), the New York Times's Dick Johnson. The Trib's Marguerite Higgins often filed good stories, says Voorhees, but "she and the other [women] distinctly were out of place in a battle zone conditioned to the convenience ... of the male," e.g., open-air latrines and communal sleeping...
Biggest share of the million will go to the Trib's Sunday magazine, its own special edition of the syndicated This Week. The Trib sold control of This Week to Joe Knapp of Crowell-Collier in 1935, but has always added its own special sections to the magazine. Herzberg is adding still more, including full-color reproductions of paintings, a two-page condensation of a bestseller, two pages of personality photographs, extra text-pieces each week by the Trib's own staffers or free lancers. Herzberg is also revamping the news sections of the Sunday Trib, widening...
These sections are the biggest in the succession of changes which the Trib has undergone since "Whitey" Reid succeeded his late father, Ogden Reid, in 1947. Weekdays, the Trib has been using more pictures, has reshuffled its editions to help street sales, developed some new columnists and given a better play to such old ones as John Crosby and Red Smith. As a result, the Trib has picked up circulation (present circ. 347,093). But the Sunday Trib's poor showing has held down the overall earnings. It will be Joe Herzberg's job to change that. Comparing...