Mell, Miss Peach, Momma… and The Producers by Rick Marschall When the New York Herald-Tribune was in its last gasps in the 1950s, it truly was a “gray lady” (the nickname often applied to the New York Times) in view of its stately dignity, rarified pedigree, and, um, imminent demise. The merger of the New York Tribune, child of the eccentric vegetarian, Republican critic of