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...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...
...Chesser Campbell, 49, the Tribune's $100,000-a-year advertising manager, is a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, who started with McCormick's old, expatriate Paris Tribune in 1921. One measure of his success: last year the Trib led the world in advertising lineage...
...this continent. It must have grown, as it grows upon the reader, like a vine of bittersweet or wild grape covering a stone wall. It is similarly eloquent of Nature, similarly unobtrusive, hardy and humbly fair to behold. It is the story of a Kentucky hill child, Ellen Chesser, groping instinctively through a scrawny, vagabond adolescence, with no attention from her roaming, horse-swapping, white-trash parents. The father settles as a tenant-helper on tobacco farms and Ellen's maidenhood is more stable. Her lanky, hungry little frame rounds out and her nature, though always puzzled, sensitive...
...Rise of Chesser," by C. S. Harper 1901, is the only real story of the number and is well worth reading. It tells of a young lawyer in New York who marries a silly pink-shirted type-writer before he comes to be the great Chesser and is sorry that he has done so afterwards. The other sketches are "Through the Storm" by J. A. Macy '99, a timely "Recollection of a Sea Fight" by G. D. Marvin '99, and "Blessed are the Poor" by A. G. Fuller 1900. This last tells prettily of a poor man's proposal...