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...tentative title of a conservative monthly news-cum-history magazine expected to be published this fall by Rodney Campbell, ex-TIME associate editor and son-in-law of the Chicago Tribune's late Publisher Chesser Campbell...
...Died. Chesser M. Campbell, 62, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and president of the Tribune Co. (a complex of 14 corporations including two shipping lines and the New York Daily News) since 1955, top man of the triumvirate that replaced the irreplaceable Colonel Robert R. McCormick; of heart disease; in Baie Comeau, Que. A onetime subscription solicitor who spent much of his 39-year Trib career as the paper's shrewd, aggressive advertising manager, Campbell once received a memo from the colonel's walnut-paneled office stating, "We carry a line over the classified ad section reading...
...Trib in 1920 and rose steadily, Don Maxwell has charge of the Tribune's 476-man editorial staff, though not necessarily its editorial policy. Similarly, General Manager J. Howard Wood, 59, runs the business side, but he is answerable to the key man in the triumvirate: Chesser M. Campbell, 62, who is not only Tribune publisher but president of the Tribune Co., a complex of 14 corporations-among them two ship lines, a paper mill, and the New York Daily News -that last year grossed $320 million...
...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...