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...Tribune city room all but forgot its deadlines. When tall, black-moustached Reporter Stanley Johnston, author of the June 7 story, walked in, the staff rose and cheered. It cheered again at the entrance of balding little Managing Editor James Loy ("Pat") Maloney. Then Colonel Robert R. McCormick appeared at the door, statement in hand. As one man, the whole room roared. The colonel blinked and said: "There never has been a bunch like the Tribune bunch. As I have told you before, every member of the Tribune is a member of my family...
...office of Tribune Managing Editor James Loy Maloney the night (June 6) when the Navy's first communiqué on the Battle of Midway came in. Editor Maloney is said to have humphed that the Navy was trying to balloon a skirmish into a big battle, proposed to put the story on an inside page. Reporter Johnston protested that it was one of the biggest naval battles in history. He laid before Editor Maloney a list of Japanese ships, gave him a description of the Japanese battle strategy. So Maloney put the story on page...
According to the Tribune, Johnston made up his list of the Jap fleet and its disposition out of "his own expert knowledge," from "discussions with naval men of all countries" and by studying Jane's Fighting Ships. Editor Maloney said the story's assertion that the information was known by Naval Intelligence was just an assumption.* Johnston said that he guessed that the Navy had spotted the approaching ships by plane and submarine reconnaissance...
...Tribune pointed out last week, Stanley Johnston had been recommended for a citation for bravery in the Battle of the Coral Sea, and Managing Editor Maloney had been a U.S. flyer in World War I, serving in Eddie Rickenbacker's squadron in France. At worst it looked as if they had committed a blunder in failing to take into account what such a story might reveal...
...Prosecutor William Power Maloney and the Federal grand jury, who began to investigate Editor Griffin last fall, found him a slippery quarry. When they tried to subpoena back numbers of the Enquirer, Griffin said that he kept none. Last week, when Prosecutor Maloney sent officers with a warrant for Mr. Griffin, they failed to find him, learned that he had checked out of a hospital the day before. Said Prosecutor Maloney, grimly: "He won't get away from us. Griffin, with his close friend and associate, George Sylvester Viereck, is regarded by the Government...