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...president was unfilled. At first most of the trade bet that cousin Robert Rutherford (Chicago Tribune) McCormick and sister Eleanor Medill (Washington Times-Herald) Patterson would soon move in. But even Bertie and Cissie could see that the News was doing fine without them, in the hands of two home-town boys: Francis M. Flynn, the general manager, and Richard W. Clarke, the executive editor. Last week Bertie, Cissie and fellow directors of Chicago's Tribune Co? (which owns the Daily News) gave them top-drawer titles...
Cause & Effect. It all happened because Canada could not do enough for her little girl. Two months ago, when 18-year-old Barbara Ann came triumphantly home from Sweden as world's figure-skating champion, home-town Ottawa rolled out the royal carpet. The Governor General's Foot Guards Band played the music; Cabinet Ministers rallied round; kids were let out of school. Then His Worship, the Mayor, fumbled through his welcoming speech-and gave her the auto, the gift of her fellow citizens. Nobody complained at the time that amateurs were not supposed to accept shiny...
...Archie" Jewell's first project was the city's International House, now in its second year. There foreign businessmen are supplied free with bilingual secretaries, home-town papers, temporary offices and all the comforts of a good club. Attached to the House is an aggressive, canny staff of trade promoters who last year helped 2,688 U.S. and foreign traders find new business. Sample deal: International House showed Southern Coach Manufacturing Co. of Evergreen, Ala., which had never exported, how to sell $750,000 worth of buses to Colombia and Argentina. As a result of the program...
...once a miner himself, knew that Bayless was right. In coal mining there is no absolute safety. Improvements have been made over the years, but the death rate is still high. Last year 974 miners died in rock falls and other accidents-most of them unnoticed beyond their home-town papers-compared with...
...life, once by one Milt Aron, another time, with considerable insistence, by a third-rater named Laddie Tonelli. ("They coulda counted a thousand over me in fractions ... I was a goner.") When he fought a "retirement" fight in Memphis last year, a local newsman wired Zivic's home-town Pittsburgh Press to see whether it wanted a story about it. The reply: "Don't bother ... we have plenty of old ones in stock...