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...first glance, patient readers of the Chicago Tribune thought Colonel Bertie McCormick was off on another simplified spelling jag. But the Page One story was simply a new way of reporting that old story, a new telephone directory. Reporter John T. McCutcheon Jr., son of the Trib's revered, retired cartoonist, had taken every word from names in the phone book...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick came back from his flying tour of Europe feeling, in some ways, better. "I think America is four times as important as I thought before I left," said he. "It is ten times as important as the average man thinks, and 100 times as important as the average New Yorker thinks." As for Laborite England, said he, "an international crowd of social climbers have control...
...McCormick, Britain's Beverley Baxter, M.P., drama critic (the Evening Standard) and ex-managing editor (the London Daily Express), observed: "As a journalist, I salute him . . . As a Britisher, I would not weep if he got caught up in his own presses and added a fifth color to his cartoons...
Catholic University is also the only U.S. university whose rector must be approved by the Pope. Last May, Pope Pius XII confirmed the Rt. Rev. Msgr: Patrick J. McCormick, 67, for his second five-year term. The tall, austere priest has taught at C.U. for 37 years...
...Converts. To Rector McCormick, the purpose of education is to teach students what life is all about-and at Catholic University, most answers have religious roots. Every Catholic undergraduate must take eight religion courses; even non-Catholics are required to take four. Says the registrar: "We have an awful lot of converts...