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...which his country is ruled, he replied: "I don't know." Others were less pessimistic. "It will restrain those who brutalize, and end indifference," said José Westerkamp, a fellow Argentine civil rights activist. Added Robert Cox, the British-born former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, who is currently a Nieman Fellow at Harvard: "Here is an ordinary person showing that one man can do an enormous amount. It's like David being equipped with armor, not just a slingshot. This is one of the few cases of the meek inheriting the earth...
...they--Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Wolfe and a few others--began adopting the techniques of the novel in the features they wrote for the Herald Tribune's Sunday supplement, or Esquire or anywhere. Symbolism, multiple perspectives, even self-indulgence: it was all there. What's more, it was all true. Actual Journalism. These journalists staged a shocking coup d'etat against their respected big brothers, the novelists. Soon the oldsters wanted to play...
...schools of business tram students to cope with deceptive practices. Americans as a whole so stretch the truth in preparing their tax returns that the Internal Revenue Service claims that it cost the U.S. Treasury at least $18 billion last year. An obscure copy editor at the New York Herald Tribune coined the phrase Credibility Gap 15 years ago to jazz up a headline over a story about L.B.J.'s Washington. Today Credibility Gap appears to span the continent...
...chairman of the National Urban Coalition, fellow of the Harvard Corporation and vice chairman of the New York Public Library. Heiskell began his career here as a journalist. In 1937 he was named LIFE'S first medicine and science editor, after a stint on the old New York Herald Tribune. He also attended the Harvard Business School, but left after a year, deciding he "never wanted to have anything to do with business again." Despite that pledge, he was lured to the publisher's office of LIFE in 1939 as assistant general manager. Heiskell was working in LIFE...
Buchwald failed to become one of the fast-rising young stars in the Marshall Plan, though, and in 1949 he went to the managing editor ot the International Herald Tribune in Paris and told him he wanted to do a nightclub and film column. "He said if they wanted someone to do it, they'd find someone and it wouldn't be me, and he threw me out of the office," Buchwald recalled. Two weeks later, the intrepid would-be columnist heard the managing editor had left town for a while, and he went back to the Tribune...