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...make assurance doubly sure, posterity-minded Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, publisher of "the world's greatest newspaper," immolated select portions of his own prose (Freedom of the Press, What Is a Newspaper) inside the cornerstone of his Chicago Tribune's new radio station building on Michigan Avenue...
Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune sounded so much like the Communist press that the Washington Post lamented that people might soon label it "the prairie edition of Pravda." Cried the Trib: "Mr. Truman's statement on Korea is an illegal declaration of war . . ." But the New York Compass, which has often walked the Communist line, this time jumped off. It blamed the Reds and got a characteristic reward from its former friends: Compass Columnist I. F. Stone was accused of "slimy Titoism...
...best known and most popular civic figure in Chicago is neither the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, the Democrats' Mayor Martin Kennelly nor the White Sox's aging but indefatigable shortstop, Lucius Benjamin Appling. In 20 years of residence at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Bushman, Chicago's own gorilla, has topped them all, both in favorable publicity and unwavering public regard...
Newcomer Holmes announced that he would bring out a "new kind" of Liberty in the fall. On Liberty's record, the magazine's chances were poor. Founded by the late Captain Joe Patterson and Colonel Bertie McCormick, later acquired by Bernarr Macfadden, and since controlled by various owners and creditors, Liberty had lost money for all but two of its 26 years...
Argosy also set up as a headline the reply from the Chicago Tribune'?, Publisher Bertie McCormick, who prides himself on bossing the "world's greatest newspaper." Said McCormick...