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HNG 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...
Angles & Stuff. If few Washington correspondents cared much for Arthur Henning's copy, most of them were fond of him personally. A gentle, friendly little man with iron-grey hair and a big, upturned grin, he is, in the words of a veteran colleague, "the nicest, mildest-mannered guy...
Although Henning's Washington copy usually reflected the crotchets of Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick, no one ever accused Henning of deliberately angling a story. Said a fellow correspondent: "You have to give him credit for good faith. He actually believes the stuff he's writing, just as...
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...
Henning had seen more of Washington politics than any other correspondent, and Bertie McCormick had no intention of letting such a man go. Reporter Henning will continue to draw his regular pay, $35,000 a year, and to write and broadcast weekly over the Trib's WGN on Washington...