Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less - Plot & Excerpts
Ten minutes after he had called room service the waiter arrived with a trolley laden with a half grapefruit, bacon and eggs, toast, steaming black coffee, a copy of the previous day’s Wall Street Journal, and the morning’s edition of The Times, Financial Times and International Herald Tribune. Harvey was not sure how he would have survived on a European trip without the International Herald Tribune, known in the trade as the “Trib.” This unique paper, published in Paris, is jointly owned by the New York Times and the Washington Post. Although only one edition of 120,000 copies is printed, it does not go to press until the New York Stock Exchange has closed. Therefore, no American need wake up in Europe out of touch. When the New York Herald Tribune folded in 1966, Harvey had been among those who advised John H. Whitney to keep the International Herald Tribune going in Europe. Once again, Harvey’s judgement had been proved sound. The International Herald Tribune went on to absorb its faltering rival, the New York Times, which had never been a success in Europe.
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