Word: chicagoland
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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...
Publisher Robert R. McCormick, who likes a good fight as well as his readers, ran Actor Keane's diatribe in a big box below Critic Cassidy's famed "On the Aisle" column. It was more evidence of the fact that Claudia Cassidy is the paramount critic in Chicagoland. Her critical judgment is not infallible, but her reviews can usually make or break any show in Chicago...
...Negro tag helps "to set Negroes apart" and thus adds to racial tensions in a city which has some 450,000 Negroes, was not satisfied. Last week, after seven months and more letters, the club took its case to Trib readers and the "leaders of thought in 'Chicagoland' " by mailing out 2,000 copies of an eight-page pamphlet "John Smith, Negro." In it, the City Club made its case against use of the racial label, arguing that "in a paper that emphasizes crimes of violence as the Tribune does, there are inevitably many news stories connecting Negroes...
...Chicagoland Music Festival (Sat. 10 p.m., Mutual). Guest: Pianist Alec Templeton...
...Tribune Tower. Outside the window they could see a shiny brass whistle, four feet high, ten inches in diameter, which until recently had graced the West Coast steamship Yale. Now Yaleman Bertie McCormick ('03) had acquired it for a new and loftier mission: to warn Chicagoland of an atomic-bomb raid. Before leaving for an Arizona vacation, the colonel had left orders for a test toot...