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...equal parts of Horatio Alger and Teddy Roosevelt. The Alger element marked the rise of a paper boy to waiting on tables at Alma College, to $150,000-a-year general manager of 27 Hearst newspapers in 1928, and then to publisher-owner of the huge (412,148 circ.) Chicago Daily News in 1931. The Rooseveltian half of his life began in the Spanish-American War, when young Knox got a bullet hole through his hat and a "Bully!" from Teddy for his service in the Rough Riders...
...hand that guides the pen is Publisher Patterson's. On the day Batchelor drew the cartoon the Daily News: 1) covered the world's battlefronts in 90¾ column inches of type; 2) devoted 184¼ in. to six crime and sex stories. To the Daily News (circ. 2,000,000), Russia was worth 34¾ in., the Lonergan trial 55 in. The entire Pacific war theater rated 3 in., the Major Horace E. Dodge divorce case, 21. The Battle of Italy was less than half as news-valuable as the Chaplin trial...
...interviewers have been admitted in recent months to the walnut-paneled office of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick. But last week the tall, testy, taciturn publisher of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 925,000) consented to receive one. The lucky fellow was suave Columnist Marquis W. Childs (circ. 7,500,000), who has succeeded the late Raymond Clapper in 108 newspapers (187 took Clapper). Next day in Chicago's tabloid Daily Times Colonel McCormick could read Childs's bread-&-butter letter. It was a Childs-like appraisal of "one of the major myths of our times...
Samuel Grafton (42 papers, circ. 2,000,000) "occupies a world of deep, depressing blacks and dazzling whites. Untroubled by any of the shadings in between, he finds no difficulty in assigning a place to the most baffling tangle of cross-purposes.† The faculty enables him to read a three-paragraph dispatch about some remote and complicated affairs and come to an instant decision on what must be done. . . . Politically, Grafton [onetime office mate of Columnist Fisher] has been a supporter of the New Deal, although he grows restless because it hasn't accomplished as much...
David Lawrence (183 papers, circ. 7,000,000) "feels light was extinguished with Woodrow Wilson's death. . . . After a short and unsatisfactory flirtation with the New Deal," he settled into dry, persistent criticism, but "has approved the Administration's foreign policy more often than not." Columnist Fisher might well have added: friend of Congress, foe of labor...