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...Manners. Admirer of engineers and military life, big (6 ft. 4 in.) McCormick, who still bears himself with parade-ground erectness, is as inelastic in ducal personal routines and crotchets as in his editing. As for years past he still rises regularly not later than 8:30, goes break-fastless to ride or tramp over his 800-acre estate at Wheaton, 45 minutes from Chicago. Having lost a blaring Tribune campaign to put Chicago on Eastern Standard Time the year round, he runs his estate on E.S.T. nevertheless. When his wife Amie, a capable portrait painter, died two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle of Newspapers | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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