Word: chessers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times, and his family home from a Florida holiday pulled into the 63rd Street station. There, to avoid reporters he knew would be waiting for him at the downtown terminal. Field got out alone. He had a secret too-the same as Walters'. Next day Field called Chesser Campbell, publisher of the rival-and dominant-morning Chicago Tribune. "I wanted you to be the first to know," he said, with the air of a man who has just slipped the competition a fast one. "We've bought the Daily News...
...late Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick, unpredictable in many ways, last week left a will with few surprises in it. As expected (TIME, April 11), the Colonel turned over the management of the Trib to his top three executives: Chesser Campbell, 57, who was vice president and now takes the Colonel's title as president; Don Maxwell, 54, managing editor; J. Howard Wood, 54, business manager. They will also be trustees of the McCormick-Patterson Trust, which holds most of the Trib stock, along with Arthur A. Schmon, president of the Trib's Canadian paper companies...
...Colonel's last instructions, none of the family stockholders was expected to take over the Trib. Instead, it was predicted that the Trib would be controlled, like the New York Daily News, by the family trustees and the paper's top executives. Three top executives: Chesser Campbell, 57, vice president of the Tribune Co.; Don Maxwell, 54, the paper's managing editor; and J. Howard Wood, 54, former financial editor and now business manager. Working with the trustees, they are expected to be in day-to-day command. And no matter how hard they try, the Trib...