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Very wroth was the New York Herald Tribune in February when the New York Times quoted Publisher Herbert Pulitzer as saying "high-class papers like the Times," instead of what he did say: ". . . like the Times and Herald Tribune" (TIME, March 9). Last week the Herald Tribune evened the score. It reported at length the vote of Princeton seniors for favorite play, favorite film, favorite poem, etc. etc. But it did not report the students' favorite newspapers which were 1) Times, 2) Herald Tribune, 3) Chicago Tribune. Even the Herald Tribune's own Colyumist FPAdams remarked next...
...Times, in reporting this part of the Pulitzer testimony, made it read "high-class newspapers like THE NEW YORK TIMES in the morning field and The Sun in the evening," did not mention the competing Herald Tribune. The Herald Tribune, in its account, did mention the Times-and next clay called attention to the Times's glaring omission in a brief editorial headed by the Times''s own lofty slogan: "All the News That's Fit to Print...
...Manhattan flimflammers went into Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, six States which contain one-half the U. S. Roman Catholic population,* and found priests eager to hear the prospectus of their "National Diversified Corp." The corporation proposed to make "movie and talkie pictures of thoroughly high-class, moral type, such as would appeal to church people." They promised that their major picture, Mary the Virgin, would be reverent in plot, the scenes proper. The hierarchy would certainly approve. But money was essential. They would sell stock in National Diversified Corp. to serious-minded believers...
...finds it impossible to meet the demand for high-class instructors in positions which range from superintendents of city schools, to headmasters of private schools and teachers in education at larger institutions. The medium salary which the opportunities offer is $3,500 and the figures occasionally run as high as $12,000 a year...
...upon evidence that he may be still the milk gangs' overlord. But observers thought it unlikely that he, in the face of one indictment, would return to his milk game while he still has sources of revenue like his nightclubs, his string of taxicabs, his assembly plant for high-class taxicabs which he sells to independent chauffeurs...