Word: mccormick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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 McCormick does...
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 affairs as a "correspondent emeritus...
Spooks & Sneezes. In witty, talkative Walter Trohan, a member of the Washington bureau since 1934, McCormick had a successor who could ably carry on the Tribune's own kind of search for truth. In 1941, Trohan "scooped" the country on the "fact" that British agents, in Washington, were wining & wenching on Lend-Lease money (said Franklin D. Roosevelt: a dirty falsehood...
...Dealers. But Trohan, who will get $19,000 a year, is also an able spring-legged reporter when he puts himself to it; he scooped everyone on President Truman's abortive plan to send Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow. Like Henning, Trohan believes in the infallibility of Colonel McCormick. Says he: "When the Colonel sneezes, the walls reverberate throughout the Tribune Tower, and even here in the bureau. But the Colonel pays for the reverberations...
Burt Brown, Al Ruby, Pat McCormick, and Harvey Thayer made the one mile relay effort for the varsity in which they finished being Northeastern. The injury of Dave Hamblett was a severe handicap to the Crimson cause in this race...