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...Reporter McCormick went to see Galloway, 28, a Negro who had already served eight years of a life term as an accomplice in the holdup-slaying of a Detroit housewife. McCormick listened to Galloway's story, then for five weeks checked the facts himself. He dug up witnesses who said that at the time of the murder, Galloway was working at his job as a porter and handyman in a Detroit restaurant. An anonymous phone tip led him to another witness, who admitted he was at the scene of the murder and that Galloway was not involved. Finally...
...crime reporter on the Detroit Free Press (circ. 394,302) Ken McCormick, 45, picks his own assignments and takes as much time as he needs on them. One assignment he worked on brought the Free Press a Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for exposing legislative graft in Michigan. Last July, McCormick picked another story he thought promising. He went to the State Prison of Southern Michigan to talk to a convict who had written the Free Press that he was innocent. McCormick was skeptical of the prisoner's story, remarked to Warden William Bannan that he had talked to more...
BUSINESS faces a six-month period of adjustment, then a long period of unparalleled prosperity, predicts Edward T. McCormick, president of the American Stock Exchange. "New industrial developments, new products and new methods now on the horizon are so revolutionary that I can't help being optimistic...
...more lineage than would be required for my rejected "defense" in order to express their concern. And they becloud the issue by dragging in phrases like "McCarthyism," "The Chicago Tribune of the East Coast," "Kremlin Newspapers in Hub Library," "The Harvard Study of Russia. . ." and name like McCarran, Hoyt, McCormick, Conant and others. Further, they talk all around the subject without attempting in any way, shape or manner to answer Mr. Fox's articles...
...Washington Times-Herald one day last week, fierce old John L. Lewis came across an editorial denouncing union pension funds, with some rather unflattering references to himself. With eyebrows twitching wrathfully. Lewis wrote a letter to the Times-Herald's editor and publisher, fierce old Colonel Robert R. McCormick, who also controls the Chicago Tribune...