23 Jul 1996
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1996
Page
1
Online weather data and forecasts are promoted with a message directing readers to the Syracuse homepage. A pollen levels report is advertised via NewsLine with a toll free phone category code and date reference in August.
Actress Whoopi Goldberg will host Bill Clinton’s 50th birthday party at Radio City Music Hall on August 18 in New York City. Video clips from the celebration will be recycled for campaign use during the presidential race and Democratic convention.
Case 4885 records the death of Ulysses 5 Gent as noted. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is listed with a 1904 birth year. A claim credits the invention of the cream cone to St. Louis.
Herald Journal invites corrections and lists contact for Tim Bunn executive editor with phone number 470-2240 and hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to fix factual inaccuracies in coverage.
The Seraid Journal and Herald American note heavy reliance on recycled newsprint with about 40 percent of paper from recycled fibers. Onondaga County residents are asked to place newspapers in brown bags at the curb or near recycling bins for collection day.
Joy Klein, once anonymous author of Primary Colors, receives the Sitting Duck Award for the most useful columnist material. After Washington Post exposure last week, colleagues condemned Klein for selling credibility to a profitable book venture. Klein says Newsweek piece aims to show mercy to public figures.
The term Gotham derives from an Anglo-Saxon "goat town" noted in The Encyclopedia of New York City. Local lore says the original Gotham near Nottingham housed residents labeled "false fools" for dodging taxes by feigning insanity. Around 1807 Washington Irving popularized Gotham as satire to poke at New York City's self-importance.
Vermont Royster aged 82, former editor of The Wall Street Journal and two time Pulitzer Prize winner, died Monday in Raleigh. He led the Journal’s editorial page from 196? to 1971 and won Pulitzers in 1959 and 1988 for editorial writing and distinguished commentary.
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