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...against MacArthur's collection of fellow travelers: William Randolph Hearst, Colonel McCormick, Mayor Curley...
...third postwar trip to Europe, tiny (5 ft. 2 in.), blue-eyed Anne McCormick had trotted around five nations, talking with the men in the chancelleries and the man in the street. She had scored no Page One beats and hunted no headlines; her job was to help Times readers understand the headlines. She had sat down with Italian Premier de Gasperi, found that he "has grown notably in office . . . the moderator has turned into a resourceful fighter." Astutely she had backgrounded the abortive Foreign Ministers' Conference. ("This . . . will go down in history as the last gesture...
...Anne McCormick's sharp reporting and coolheaded analysis of the news have won her a wide audience, including many an admiring and envious member of her own profession. This week her work also won her the Overseas Press Club's award for the best interpretive foreign correspondence of 1947. When she returns to the U.S. this week, she will add the award (a sheepskin citation and a gold watch) to an assortment of trophies that includes the first major Pulitzer Prize (1937) ever awarded a woman journalist...
...Tyro. Although never a cub in the Times shop, Mrs. McCormick schooled herself for years before filing a cable. British-born (in Wakefield, Yorkshire, of American parents) Anne O'Hare grew up in Columbus, Ohio, went to St. Mary of the Springs Academy ('98) and the College of St. Mary of the Springs. In Cleveland she worked as associate editor of the weekly Catholic Universe Bulletin, on which her mother, Poet Teresa O'Hare, was once woman's-page editor...
...wife of Francis J. McCormick,* a prospering Dayton engineer and importer, she went along on his European buying trips, studied every country they visited, wrote a few pieces for the Times magazine section. In 1921, when they were about to sail for Europe once again, she jotted a timid note to the late, great Carr V. Van Anda, Times managing editor, asking if she might send him some dispatches from abroad. Van Anda wired her: "Try it." She did and impressed him with her shrewd judgment of Benito Mussolini ("Italy is hearing the master's voice") when other correspondents...