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Arms & the Men. The Tribune is a tightly run command, but it is no one-man show. McCormick's army of talent is extraordinarily well paid, headed by high-powered brass...
Arthur H. Schmon, 52, mustached president of McCormick's Ontario Paper Co. and head of its timberlands, paper mills and ships, bosses more people (7,850) than the Tribune and Daily News employ together (3,200 apiece). He was the Colonel's World War I adjutant, named a son Robert McCormick Schmon, is probably closest to the boss of all executives (none of them calls him "Mac," and few presume to call him "Bert...
Chesser Campbell, 49, the Tribune's $100,000-a-year advertising manager, is a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, who started with McCormick's old, expatriate Paris Tribune in 1921. One measure of his success: last year the Trib led the world in advertising lineage...
...late Max Annenberg. He is the only executive who can stop the presses (with a buzzer that blows a siren in the press room). "Louie" Rose cruises his newsstands at night in a new, $5,000 Packard. His boss bought it, found the roof too low for the high McCormick head, told Rose: "If you like it I'll give it to you." Rose liked...
...become friendly with a man, he wants me to keep his divorce out of the paper or something." When he dies, the Colonel will leave his empire in the hands of a junta of its officers. He has no son & heir, but he has a favorite niece, blonde Ruth McCormick ("Bazy") Miller, 26 (daughter of the Colonel's late brother Medill and Ruth Hanna McCormick), who is learning the business with her husband by running a small-town daily in La Salle...