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...British side, some of the most barbed taunts and reproaches, as reckless as those of the McCormick press in the U.S., have come from London's New Statesman and Nation...
Publisher Robert R. McCormick, who likes a good fight as well as his readers, ran Actor Keane's diatribe in a big box below Critic Cassidy's famed "On the Aisle" column. It was more evidence of the fact that Claudia Cassidy is the paramount critic in Chicagoland. Her critical judgment is not infallible, but her reviews can usually make or break any show in Chicago...
...Illinois, and got her start in 1925 reviewing music for the Chicago Journal of Commerce. She had no musical training, but she knew what she liked and said so in quotable phrases, sometimes purple. The Journal lost her to Marshall Field's new Chicago Sun. In 1942 Bertie McCormick took her away with a fat boost in salary, which is now over...
...Symphony Orchestra, thousands of Trib readers who had never read a music story read Cassidy to learn how she would scratch Defauw next. At the height of the battle, the Trib received 200 complaining letters in one week from Defauw supporters, and Miss Cassidy offered to resign. Cried Bertie McCormick, "Two hundred letters to the music department? You keep right on writing...
Divorced. By Ruth ("Bazy") McCormick Miller, 29, favorite niece of the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick, heiress apparent to his press properties and editor for the past year of the Washington Times-Herald: (Maxwell) Peter Miller Jr., 31, the Times-Herald's former treasurer; after nine years of marriage, two children; in Ottawa...