Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debonair, with a dashing guardsman's mustache and expensive tailoring casually worn. His grandfather, Daniel Macmillan, was a Scots crofter (tenant farmer) who migrated to London, and in years ago founded the now prosperous book-publishing house of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Macmillan's mother, the former Helen Belles of Spencer, Ind., gave him what the English call "an American connection." Wealth and precocity led to good schools (Eton and Oxford), good marks (a first at Balliol), good regiment (Grenadier Guards), good military record (wounded three times in World War I), good marriage (the second daughter of the ninth...
...boss of the New York Herald Tribune, Helen Rogers Reid, 72, has long been the grande dame of U.S. journalism. Even before her husband Ogden Reid died in 1947, leaving her control of the paper, Helen Reid had a strong claim to the title. Once social secretary to Ogden Reid's mother, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, she began helping her husband on the Tribune in 1918 after $15 million of the family's money had been poured into the ailing daily...
...sold advertising, worked on the editorial side, turned herself into a well-rounded newspaper executive. After she took over, she added to the Trib's prestige by such activities as the annual Herald Tribune Forum and a host of civic activities. Of all her plans, Helen Reid has been most determined about one. At the right time she wanted to step out and let her two sons, Whitelaw and Ogden, take over...
...eight years. Stocky, dark-haired Brownie (yale '49) is a driving, fast-talking ex-paratrooper; he has worked in a variety of jobs, mostly on the business side. For years Trib staffers have tried to guess which one-Whitey or Brownie-would end up as boss. Last week Helen Reid ended the guessing game...
...high (387,000). and the Trib is operating in the black. Brownie Reid, who is considered a "business-office" type by Trib editorial staffers, does not have Whitey's popularity with the staff. But some feel that his aggressive ways are just what the paper needs. As for Helen Reid, she expects a "team operation," each son doing what he can do best...