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Never before in modern times had the free press of the world raised its voice in such a thunderous defense of press freedom itself. From Bertie McCormick's isolationist Chicago Tribune to the global-minded New York Times, from Brazil's Correio da Manhá to Belgium's Catholic La Libre Belgique, editors drove their sharpest phrases into the tough hide of Argentina's Juan Perón last week for his suppression of La Prensa (TIME...
...newspaper ethically go in opposing political candidates? Last week Editor Ruth McCormick ("Bazy") Miller of the Washington Times-Herald purred up to Capitol Hill in her yellow Lincoln sedan to talk over this question with a Senate investigating subcommittee. The Senators wondered if the Times-Herald staff hadn't gone a little far in the campaign which unhorsed Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings last fall...
Second to Communism, internationalism is the greatest political sin to Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Tribune...
Strout's crudest cut was a repetition of the charge (TIME, Feb. 26), that Martin was really Britain's Bertie McCormick. "Different as the publishers are in some respects," wrote Strout, "they share a furious self-rectitude, a fine ability to raise everybody's blood-pressure and a loathing for American foreign policy...
...elbow room for his leisurely essays on everything from Tom Dewey ("a certified public accountant in pursuit of the Holy Grail") to Babe Ruth's death ("He was Hercules with bat in hand, but he was Hercules done by Disney") and the suppressed Briticisms of Anglophobe Robert R. McCormick ("Still talking with a trace of British accent, taking afternoon tea, wearing a wrist watch on each hand, and being forever to his friends known as Bertie. Freud, thou shouldst be living at this hour...