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Change was inevitable, for McCormick carried an inimitable brand of muscular, sputtering, personal journalism with him into the grave. For 41 years he used the Tribune as the vessel of his wrath against the faults he found in Chicagoland, the world, and the 20th century. The paper fumed at foreigners (especially the British), Franklin D. Roosevelt and his kin, all Democrats, most Republicans, social security, the United Nations, Rhodes scholars and Ivy League schools. In between-and often despite-the colonel's crusades, the Tribune's big and expert staff did, and still does, put out the best...
...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...