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This week Liberty, another chronic money-loser, tried a new tack to get out of the red tide and into the black. Except for a couple of war years, it had gone profitless under Founders Joseph M. Patterson and Robert R. McCormick. And it had failed to pay its way for their successors, Bernarr Macfadden and Paul Hunter. A weekly until last February and a fortnightly since, Liberty (circ. 1,600,000) will now be a 10? monthly...
...afternoon Times so much as he needed a place to print his morning Sun. Since it began, six years ago, the Sun has been a paying guest of the Chicago Daily News. At first, everything was fine. Marshall Field's Sun was out to wear down Bertie McCormick's monolithic Tribune. Always happy to stick an irritating finger in McCormick's glacial eye, the late Colonel Frank Knox quartered the Sun in his spacious Daily News plant, let it use his presses at night and was nice about the rent. Hardheaded John S. Knight later took over...
...Angeles Times, Hedda was made. In 1940 she switched from Esquire to the Des Moines Register & Tribune syndicate; in 1942, she pulled off her grand coup of wooing & winning syndicating contracts from the New York Daily News's Joe Patterson and the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick. On that day, June 1, Lolly Parsons arched her back but moved over on the fence. Hedda had become a major Hollywood gossip...
Born. To Ruth Elizabeth ("Bazy") McCormick Miller, 26, favorite niece of Uncle Robert McCormick and heiress apparent to his Chicago Tribune empire; and Maxwell Peter Miller Jr., 28: their second child, first son; in Chicago. Name: Mark McCormick (for her maternal grandfather, the late Mark Hanna). Weight...
...Also slighted: Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccaccio, John Wycliffe. *Originally named Red Oaks, renamed by the Colonel after the first real battle of World War I in which U.S. troops (including McCormick) participated...