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When it reopened in 1944, it had a new editor-36-year-old Geoffrey Parsons Jr., wartime chief of the Trib's London bureau and son of the New York Trib's chief editorial writer. Parsons, a solid newsman and no roisterer, tried to put a new polish on the old formula by adding such features as David Low's cartoons and increasing the coverage of international news. By 1947, circulation had climbed to above the prewar peak (the Herald appears on 6,500 European newsstands), but the paper had stayed for the most part...
...good grey New York Times waited until the marriage had taken place, then turned in a split decision. Like the Herald Trib, it buried the story (on page 72). But like the News, it headlined the story : MISS ANNE MATHER MARRIED TO NEGRO...
Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune sounded so much like the Communist press that the Washington Post lamented that people might soon label it "the prairie edition of Pravda." Cried the Trib: "Mr. Truman's statement on Korea is an illegal declaration of war . . ." But the New York Compass, which has often walked the Communist line, this time jumped off. It blamed the Reds and got a characteristic reward from its former friends: Compass Columnist I. F. Stone was accused of "slimy Titoism...
...fighting began, a handful of correspondents, already in the Far East, flew to Korea. One of these was the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins, only woman correspondent on the spot. Winsome, blonde Reporter Higgins, a World War II correspondent, filed a series of stories that the Trib splashed across Page One. The Chicago Daily New's Keyes Beech sent back a good dramatic account ("I have a feeling that I have just witnessed the beginning of World. War III . . ."). So did the Chicago Tribune's Walter Simmons, who was in Seoul when the fighting started...
...Mutual's Fulton Lewis Jr.; it was the subject of a documentary, neither pro nor con, by CBS's Edward R. Murrow. Columnist Robert Ruark declared that "I believe . . ." Henry Holt announced a "serious" book on flying saucers by Variety's Columnist Frank Scully. The Herald Trib, pooh-poohing the U.S. News article, concluded: "And yet-And yet there is something puzzling about the business...