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Last Saturday, readers of the Chicago Daily Tribune learned the truth, McCormick style, about the army versus McCarthy. Under an eight column headline, STEVENS TRIED TO KILL PROBE: McCARTHY, they read a lot about McCarthy's so-called "disclosure" and a very little about what the Tribune termed the "alleged actions" of Roy Cohn. The self-acknowledged "World's Greatest Newspaper," in pursuing its pro-McCarthy bent, made striking use of its prerogative to interpret the news...
Ever since his Wheeling speech, the Tribune has endorsed McCarthy editorially, spotlighted his probes in blaring headlines, and defended him with colored caricatures of his opponents. Only once did Colonel McCormick falter. When General Zwicker faced the Senator's invective, army veteran McCormick reflected and said: "It seems to us that Senator McCarthy will better serve his cause if he learns to distinguish the role of investigator from the role of avenging angel." But after two weeks of retrospect, the Tribune eased back into the Senator's fold: "Senator McCarthy has been trying to clean out some of the subversive...
...first husband, Igor (Cholly Knickerbocker) Cassini, went off to war. But, said she, it "was a luxury from the beginning. Now I find it's a luxury that I can't afford." The Times-Herald had no trouble finding a suitable replacement. The new columnist: Maryland McCormick, 55, wife of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the Times-Herald (and Chicago Tribune) publisher. Maryland's new column started off this week on a subject on which both she and her predecessor are undisputed experts: publishers' wives. Says Mrs. McCormick, with a touch of the outspokenness that has made...
...March 16) and it was running a deficit of $1,600 a week. Then the sun came out again. Last week Anne ("Nancy") Elaine Harrison, wife of the New Republic's publisher, fell heir to a third of the $35 million estate* left by her eccentric grandmother, Anita McCormick Elaine, International Harvester heiress, benefactress to the University of Chicago, Foundation for World Government and latter-day angel to such causes as the late Progressive Party and Manhattan's defunct pinko Daily Compass...
...smear newspaper, the Milwaukee edition of the Daily Worker" Other readers, damning its doggedly independent, liberal ways, refer to it as "that damn Journal." (One prominent Milwaukeean pays his newsboy 25? a week to tear out the editorial page before delivering the paper.) Isolationist Chicago Tribune Publisher Colonel Robert McCormick, who considers the Journal a radical upstart in the Trib's Chicagoland, calls it a "wood pussy...