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...corpse of Lenin." Liebling's impression of Pundit Walter Lippmann: "Nowtherefore and whereas and ahem." PM's Max Lerner writes editorials "like an elephant treading the dead body of a mouse into the floor of its cage." Liebling often rags the Chicago Tribune and Bertie McCormick, but wonders if it "isn't like punching the heavy bag. The Colonel is in the direct line of Dickens' Colonel Diver of the Rowdy Journal and of Elijah Pogram, who 'Defied the world, sir-defied the world in general to compete with our country upon any hook...
Colonel Robert R. McCormick (Sat. 10 p.m., Mutual). The weekly "air editorial," delivered en route to the Orient, from Honolulu...
...Forge Shop. Harvester has come a long way since 1831, when Cyrus Hall McCormick invented his reaper in the forge shop of his Virginia farm and laid the groundwork for Harvester's greatness. Cyrus McCormick plugged his reapers with written testimonials, sold them on the installment plan ($30 down, $90 on terms). In 1847 he built a three-story brick factory in Chicago. By the time he died in 1884, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. was one of the largest in the field. Even after it became the International Harvester Co. 18 years later, through a merger with...
Harvester's directing head and chairman is Cyrus' grandson. Tall, 51-year-old Fowler McCormick (who is also a grandson of John D. Rockefeller Sr.) was a latecomer to business. Princeton man McCormick studied art, archeology and music and frolicked with Manhattan's nightclub set before he went to work in Harvester's experimental department in 1928. He worked up as "blockman" (the company man in dealing with distributors), branch manager, vice president in charge of manufacturing, and finally president in 1941. Shy, quiet and hardworking, McCormick had a thorough Harvester education by 1946, when...
...Luck. So far, Fowler McCormick has not had too much luck with Labor. An 80-day strike last year by the Redlined Farm Equipment and Metal Workers' Union (C.I.O.) shut down eleven of the company's 22 U.S. plants. Only this week 8,000 Harvester workers ended a four-day walkout over the discharge of three men. Nevertheless, by profit-sharing and pension plans, McCormick eventually hopes to bring permanent peace...