Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colt automatic; Arias leveled his pearl-handled .38 at the general's middle. Without saying anything more, he squeezed the trigger three times. The general sank to the black-&-white marble tiles, fired once before he hit the floor. Once was enough: his slug ripped through the police chief's heart...
When a Porter song is finished, it generally has a few added staves that are the germ of an orchestral arrangement. He writes out the lyrics in a neat, printlike hand, to be typed by his secretary. First to hear the music is Budapest-born Dr. Albert Sirmay, chief editor of Chappell & Co., Porter's publishers, and also his musical secretary, friend and adviser for 22 years. While the composer plays the song on one of his baby grands, Dr. Sirmay jots down notes and sometimes warns him about cribbing inadvertently from the 400 songs (250 of them published...
...stood for Arthur Sears Henning, the Trib's softspoken, acid-penned Washington bureau chief. He had been in Washington since 1909 and had seemed as permanent as the Washington Monument. But six years ago, ailing Correspondent Henning had turned over the actual running of the Trib's eleven-man bureau to pudgy, bouncing Walter Trohan, 46. Last week, at 72, Henning turned over the title of bureau chief as well...
Henning joined the Trib in 1899, a cub from Chicago's City News Bureau. After a stint at general assignments and politics, he went to Washington and became bureau chief in 1914. Henning was one of the favored reporters William Howard Taft called in for press conferences around the Cabinet table. There, Taft regaled them with droll stories, "shaking," says Henning, "like a bowl full of jelly." Henning found Woodrow Wilson irascible and short-tempered, and Calvin Coolidge a man who "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...
...memoirs, Trohan had stirred up many a cat & dogfight among old New Dealers. But Trohan, who will get $19,000 a year, is also an able spring-legged reporter when he puts himself to it; he scooped everyone on President Truman's abortive plan to send Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow. Like Henning, Trohan believes in the infallibility of Colonel McCormick. Says he: "When the Colonel sneezes, the walls reverberate throughout the Tribune Tower, and even here in the bureau. But the Colonel pays for the reverberations...