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...McCormick, 6 ft., 5 in., will be pivot man. McCormick, from Cleveland, was a hurler on the track team last spring and makes good use of his height and jump on the tip-off and under the basket. Cruising at the same altitude is forward Ed Smith, 6 ft., 5 in., who will be firing with either hand from the left. Smith's home field is in Columbus, Ohio...
Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick is no man to let others transact his important business. When Publisher McCormick decided to go to Tokyo, politicos guessed that General Douglas MacArthur was to be measured for a presidential toga. The Colonel kept in close touch with his Chicago Tribune readers, as usual...
...friend General MacArthur, whom McCormick had known well in World War I, gave him the most lavish reception ever accorded an unofficial visitor. General MacArthur lent him his private Cadillac, dined with him twice. McCormick assured U.S. newsmen that they had avoided politics. He brushed off talk of the MacArthur-for-President drive and repeated his endorsement of Senator Taft...
Then Colonel McCormick gave a lecture to the Tokyo Correspondents' Club. Subject: the history of the Hudson's Bay Co. Before leaving Tokyo for home, he took a walk with Emperor Hirohito amid the 700-year-old dwarf trees in his garden. Reported the Colonel, whose occasional sarcasm and constant, majestic deadpan sometimes pass muster for a sense of humor: "The Emperor said he hoped in the future the relations between Japan and the U.S. would be as warm as they have been in the past...
...Japanese press references to McCormick's remarks were killed by MacArthur censors. They passed a frontpage, column story in the Nippon Times, quoting Milwaukee's Lansing Hoyt, self-appointed MacArthur campaign boss: "I am able to say with the certainty of personal knowledge that General MacArthur will accept the Republican nomination...