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Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick is a farsighted-often a gloomily farsighted-man. Last month he set aside the Chicago Tribune Tower's lowest sub-basement as an atom-bomb shelter (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week he announced that he would stock the (future) dugout with a little (future) mild refreshment. He assured the 3,000 Tower employees that the refuge would be "equipped [for us] to live there 24 hours. . . ." Among its provisions: "an adequate supply of canned pineapple . . . the best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
...magazine to "give the art of poetry a voice in the land. . . ." The replies were enthusiastic; Amy Lowell sent a check for $25, and Ezra Pound (then in London) agreed to become Poetry's first, unsalaried foreign editor. Harriet Monroe knocked on wealthy Chicago doors (Samuel Insull, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Dawes), soon begged enough money to start...
...north side of Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge, in a small circle of dignitaries, Mayor Martin Kennelly and International Harvester Co.'s Fowler McCormick last week unveiled a plaque. It noted the Chicago centenary of the International Harvester Co., largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment in the world. Five days later, under tents and in open areas flanking nearby Soldier Field, some 275 pieces of Harvester equipment were displayed, to show how the company intends to make the second hundred years as exciting and profitable as the first...
Freshmen, all of whom won letters in secondary school competition, represent such minor league teams as Winsor, Buck such minor league teams as Winsor, Buckingham, Bryn Mawr School, Albany Academy, and Bolmont High. The most promising among them are Jean McCormick, Ann Loomis, Joan Gardiner, Mary Connor, Penny Hughes, Valentine Loring, Jennifer Post, Cynthia Williams, Rosamond Johnson, Enid Maslon, and Mary Brandt...
Even though (as he loves to point out) his Chicago Tribune is published deep in the heart of the U.S., Col. Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick feels a little unsafe. Last week the Trib reported to its readers that when the first atomic bomb falls on Chicago, 3,000 Tribune Tower employees will have a bombproof hole to scamper into. For his atomic shelter, the Colonel set aside the second basement of the Tower, "a room massively walled and ceiled with heavy concrete and steel beams...