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When Greeley died in 1872, Whitelaw Reid, an ace Civil War 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...
...heft of money." He kept a private hate list and added names to it all his years. "A liar, a thief, a drunkard, a traitor, a filthy-minded and salacious slut," he recorded, at 74, of a secretary fallen from his grace. The distinguished fared no better: he called Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Tribune, "a skunk, a eunuch, a missing link...
After seeing tapes of the Lowell House production, Jordan Whitelaw, musical program planner for WGBH, decided to schedule the comedy as the Christmas show on "Performance," a weekly half-hour program of live music. Sandy Lockett, an employee of Audio Lab in Cambridge, and Parker Swanson '62 are the co-directors of the show...
Among the best women's colleges is the Society of the Sacred Heart's Manhattanville (765 students), founded in Manhattan and now located on the old 250-acre Whitelaw Reid estate in suburban Westchester County. Noted for its school of liturgical music. Manhattanville (fee: $2,500 a year) attracts the rich. Among its alumnae: President Kennedy's mother, his sisters Eunice and Jean, and Brother Bobby's wife Ethel. Notre Dame's neighbor, Saint Mary's College (1,507 women), was founded in 1855 as the nation's first degree-granting Catholic women...
...Married. Whitelaw Reid, 46, a director and onetime (1947-55) editor of the New York Herald Tribune; and Elizabeth Ann Brooks, 27, executive secretary of the Fairfield Foundation (which promotes international cultural exchange); he for the second time, she for the first; in New Rochelle...