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...pleased old W.R. made him publisher of the prized American Weekly on top of his Journal-American job, and Bill was clearly marked as the empire's crown prince. Twice divorced, he was married three years ago to pretty Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini, society gossipist for Washington's McCormick-owned Times-Herald (her column is now Hearst-syndicated) and ex-wife of the Journal-American's own Igor (Cholly Knickerbocker) Cassini. The Hearsts shuttle between Washington and Manhattan, have one child, two-year-old William Randolph...
After months of sniping, Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune last week opened up a full-dress attack on Dwight Eisenhower as a candidate for President...
...whom McCormick labeled "the logical candidate," Ohio's Senator Robert Taft, took pains to make it clear that he did not buy the McCormick line. It is "unreasonable," said Taft, to accuse Ike of letting the Russians take Berlin and Prague, for he undoubtedly had his orders. "It may be true that Eisenhower was sympathetic to Montgomery, but I don't blame him for that," said Taft...
Point by point, Eisenhower men could answer the distortions and exaggerations in the Tribune blast, but in the months to come, those charges would be heard again & again. Bertie McCormick had written the textbook for the anti-Eisenhower campaign...
...McCormick, who had been Acting Chief since Sherman's death, lacked fleet-command experience, and then there were two. The two: Vice Admiral Richard L. ("Close-In") Conolly, World War II amphibian commander, now head of the Naval War College, and Admiral William M. Fechteler, chief of the Atlantic Fleet...