Word: mccormick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Ottawa, balding Eugene Griffin handles many a special job for Colonel Bertie McCormick. Last winter, when the Colonel heard that an un-American blight was mottling the Ivy League, Griffin toured the Harvard, Yale and Princeton campuses. He proved (to the Tribune's satisfaction at least) that the Colonel had heard right. This fall the Trib got around to Dartmouth. When Griffin arrived, notebook in hand and hatchet up his sleeve, he got a cordial welcome. President John Sloan Dickey had reserved him a room at the Hanover Inn, and offered...
Later she dropped from the sight of her socialite friends, called herself "Agnes Homberg," and spent months as a cashier, department-store detective and salesgirl. What she found out ran in Liberty magazine, then owned by her father and Cousin Bertie McCormick, as a series on how to get a job. She was married twice in her 20s, to James Simpson Jr., son of a onetime board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., and to Broker-Aviator Joseph W. Brooks, and divorced them...
Family Arguments. "We are not part of the McCormick-Patterson axis," says Alicia shortly. "We're really independent. We can attack anybody we want, because we don't want anything from anybody." In 1940, when Alicia was for F.D.R. and her husband for Wendell Willkie, they argued it out on the editorial page. Now there is no argument; both are for Dewey. She also broke with her father, editorially, on his isolationism. Newsday looks with favor on ECA, and, like its commuting readers, with impatience on the Long Island railroad...
...cliches that still keep news-writing stilting along behind the racy spoken word. But many still survive. The late, great Editor William Rockhill Nelson barred the word snake from his Kansas City Star because he thought readers couldn't take it at the breakfast table. Colonel Bertie McCormick has let some of his simplified-spelling decrees lapse (foto-graf has been compromised into photo-graf), but his Chicago Tribune still uses monolog, tho, frate...
Manhattan papers chose to ignore most of the story. But the New York Star added its bit of mystery. It told about a memo written by Cissie Patterson after a squabble with her cousin, the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, over management of the family's New York Daily News. Shortly before Cissie's death, said the Star, she wrote Bertie a memo that she was going to change her will...