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High up in Chicago's Tribune Tower, the door to Colonel Robert R. McCormick's sanctum flew open. Out strode the colonel's niece, 30-year-old Ruth McCormick Miller, editor of his Washington Times-Herald. Mad as a wet hen, she took the elevator to the lobby, hustled off to her suite in the Ambassador East Hotel. There Newshen "Bazy" confirmed a fast-spreading rumor: she had just had a "heated showdown-not loud but emphatic"-with Bertie McCormick. Furthermore, she was all washed up as boss of the Times-Herald...
Only 19 months before, the colonel had proudly installed Bazy in her new job, underscoring the fact that she was the heir apparent to the McCormick publishing empire. "Tradition is an important thing . . ." Bertie said on his 65th birthday in 1947. "When, 15 or 20 years from now, I am no longer here, Ruth Elizabeth-Bazy -will be carrying...
...Washington had more complex explanations. McCormick was apparently fed up with Bazy's autocratic way of running his newspaper. During her reign, nearly a dozen loyal, valuable T-H veterans had quit in disgust ("No matter what you may think of Colonel McCormick's policies," said one of them, "he is a wonderful boss. People just don't leave the Chicago Tribune . . ."). The T-H had fallen behind rivals in circulation and advertising increases...
...Chief was so worn out that he could only gasp a few words of thanks. A few minutes later he bolted for the door. The Chippewas and Editor Chappie were pleased anyway. "We do this," said a chief, "because the colonel has made a wonderful exhibition of his life . . . McCormick is a very wonderful thing and still...
...crossroads in Wisconsin's Bad River Indian reservation, 370 miles northwest of Chicago, a solemn band of Chippewas waited in their feathered best for the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick one afternoon last week. The Indians planned to make the colonel a Chippewa chief, although they were a little hazy on the reason why. But they trusted their neighbor, who had set up all the arrangements: Editor John Chappie, 51, of the Ashland Daily Press (circ. 4,397), who idolizes Bertie McCormick as the world's foremost military expert and the "most courageous American alive...