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...Chicago Tribune's ebullient publisher, Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, 74, left his annual hibernation in Florida with pains in his nether regions, was reported out of the hospital and doing fine in Chicago after surgery for abdominal adhesions...
...Alarm. On Wall Street the market break was calmly interpreted as a long-overdue technical reaction after an almost uninterrupted rise of 15% in the past two months. Said President Edward T. McCormick of the American Stock Exchange: "In my opinion none of the basic economic indices justify alarm over the present level of the market...
Last week, in Dallas' Athletic Club, some of the city's leading citizens gave a testimonial dinner to show McCormick how wrong he is about himself. Their proof: McCormick's eight-year-long campaign to get better care for children struck by tuberculosis. "Get this straight," explained McCormick defensively. "I ain't no do-gooder. I don't go out to the hospitals and dandle those kids on my knee. But something had to be done about...
...McCormick started doing something after he discovered in his police-beat check on hospitals that tuberculous children under six could not get hospital care anywhere in the state. In anger he pounded out a series of articles that started one of the best-known, singlehanded crusades in Texas newspapering. Since 1946, he has crisscrossed Texas in his MG, buttonholing politicians, speaking before fund-raising rallies, and reporting his progress in the News. When a wealthy Texas widow died, McCormick persuaded her executors to use $250,000 of her estate to build a 52-bed hospital for tuberculous children. By last...
...McCormick's accomplishments in fund-raising are more than matched by his success at hell-raising crime stories. In more than 30 years as a newsman, he has scored notable beats on everything from an interview with a fugitive who had escaped from the Texas death house to an exclusive last year on an attempt to extort $250,000 from 24 of Dallas' leading Jewish families. Police Reporter McCormick has no intention of slowing down. Says he: "There ain't no such thing as the biggest moment in the newspaper business. The real big one is still...