--- title: Shangri-La-De-Dah description: "Childe Herald," the "White House correspondent" of the Rocky Mountain Herald (circ. 1,980), Denver weekly, was dissatisfied with the news from the Presidential press conferences... canonical: https://time.com/archive/6786804/shangri-la-de-dah/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 1942-06-29T04:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T17:30:00.383Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Shangri-La-De-Dah og:description: "Childe Herald," the "White House correspondent" of the Rocky Mountain Herald (circ. 1,980), Denver weekly, was dissatisfied with the news from the Presidential press conferences... og:url: https://time.com/archive/6786804/shangri-la-de-dah/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Shangri-La-De-Dah twitter:description: "Childe Herald," the "White House correspondent" of the Rocky Mountain Herald (circ. 1,980), Denver weekly, was dissatisfied with the news from the Presidential press conferences... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Shangri-La-De-Dah by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 29, 1942 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 29, 1942 4:00 AM CUT “Childe Herald,” the “White House correspondent” of the Rocky Mountain Herald (circ. 1,980), Denverweekly, was dissatisfied with the news from the Presidential pressconferences last week, and queried further: Franklin, Franklin, May I ask a Question: Was it Shangri-laska? Did they, Franklin-Poker-Face, Use a Shangrileutian base? Did they, Franklin-Question-Parrier, Use a Shangri-lairplane carrier? Be it Mongol base or Zulu, Franklin, it’s a Shangri-lulu! ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6786804/shangri-la-de-dah/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6786804/shangri-la-de-dah/"},"headline":"Shangri-La-De-Dah","datePublished":"1942-06-29T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T17:30:00.383Z","description":"\"Childe Herald,\" the \"White House correspondent\" of the Rocky Mountain Herald (circ. 1,980), Denver weekly, was dissatisfied with the news from the Presidential press conferences...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6786804/shangri-la-de-dah/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6786804/shangri-la-de-dah/","name":"Shangri-La-De-Dah"}}]}] ```