Word: chicagoland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victor & Columbia LPs). Both of these disks offer the same musicians-Clarinetist Matty Matlock and his Jazz Band, including Tenorman Eddie Miller, Guitarist George Van Eps, Drummer Nick Fatool-and eleven of the same tunes from the current movie. Several of the players, once the shock-thatched cream of Chicagoland, are now the cream of Movieland, and their thinning hair is neatly parted...
What made up Maxwell's mind on simplified spelling was that Chicagoland schoolteachers complained that they were having trouble teaching students to spell words right when the Trib persisted in spelling them wrong. While most newsmen applauded the efforts of the new Trib's bosses to strike out on their own, the applause was tempered by some regret. Said one Chicago newsman: "There is something sad about seeing the Trib lose the old to-hell-with-everything air of individualism that the Colonel instilled...
...McCormick's big, successful Chicago Tribune has lost almost 20% of its circulation since 1946 (latest figure: 877,636), and the inevitable rumors have been circulating. One had it that Publisher John Knight, whose string of papers stretches from Florida (Miami Herald) to McCormick's own Chicagoland (Daily News), was dickering to buy the Trib. Last week, in answer to a reader's question, the Trib flatly denied the rumors. Said an editorial...
...doggedly independent, liberal ways, refer to it as "that damn Journal." (One prominent Milwaukeean pays his newsboy 25? a week to tear out the editorial page before delivering the paper.) Isolationist Chicago Tribune Publisher Colonel Robert McCormick, who considers the Journal a radical upstart in the Trib's Chicagoland, calls it a "wood pussy...
Importing the weather from Chicagoland (where there was a blizzard last week) was merely aging (71) Bertie McCormick's latest step in remaking the Times-Herald in the image of his Chicago Tribune. Already, the T-H was using Trib-style type and makeup, parroting its editorials and columnists, using the Trib's truncated spellings (sherif, frate), even leading off the weekly football predictions (piped in from Chicago) with Midwestern games. Cracked one Washington newshand: "All he needs to do is call it the Washington Tribune...