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Chicago Theater of the Air (Sat. 10 p.m., Mutual). Colonel Robert R. McCormick (see PRESS) congratulating his Chicago Tribune on its 100th anniversary...
...brogues. He is the leader of millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing dishes in a Pittsburgh waffle foundry and having Pugilist Jackie Zivic poke thumbs in his eyes...
...News continued to shoot up. The U.S. newspaper with the most readers now has 2,375,000 daily customers and 4,800,000 on Sundays. Yet Joe Patterson's old title of president was unfilled. At first most of the trade bet that cousin Robert Rutherford (Chicago Tribune) McCormick and sister Eleanor Medill (Washington Times-Herald) Patterson would soon move in. But even Bertie and Cissie could see that the News was doing fine without them, in the hands of two home-town boys: Francis M. Flynn, the general manager, and Richard W. Clarke, the executive editor. Last week...
Flynn, who had worked his way to a salary of more than $100,000 a year, inherited Joe Patterson's old title of president of the News; Dick Clarke, another $100,000-a-year hand, was re-elected secretary. Colonel McCormick made it clear that he was content to confine himself to his Tribune. Said he to a friend: "I don't want to mix in. The trouble with Hearst is that all his papers sound and look alike. I want the News and the Chicago Tribune to be different. Dick Clarke worked under Patterson so long...
...Withington (H); 2, Ingelin (Y); 3, A. Edelman (H). Time--2 min., 6/10 sec. 220-yard dash--won by D. Cavicke (H); 2, Lucke (Y); 3, F. Haydock (H). Time--22 6/10 sec. 220-yard low hurdles--won by W. Flint (H); 2, Finley (Y); 3, P. Mccormick (H). Time--23 8/10...