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...never world of the funnies, this was the news of the year-comparable to Henry Ford quitting his motor company and setting up shop in competition across the street. It was a move involving three of the biggest U.S. press lords: the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick (who lost Caniff), and Marshall Field and William Randolph Hearst, who gained him. For Caniff himself, it meant a guarantee of $520,000 for his next five years' work, and a stiff challenge-to outdo the best of his past...
...year-old philosopher, whose election to the Institute's Department of Literature accompanied that of newspaperwoman Anne O'Hare McCormick and author Christopher LaFarge '19, taught or studied in 15 different colleges before becoming chairman of the Division of Philosophy and Psychology in 1935 and chairman of the Department of Philosophy...
...their next quixotic tilt with the Rhodes Scholar "conspiracy," the Patterson McCormick papers might well point to Associate Professor John W. Fairbank of the History Department, as an example of American Youth subverted by these foreign scholarships. For tall, thoughtful Professor Fairbank, after the good start of being born in South Dakota in 1907, led a clean-cut life till his second year at Wisconsin University. At this point he got mixed up with Harvard, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the question of China's destiny. So that today, or on October 7, 1946, we find him asserting in a "Times...
...Chicago, Colonel Robert R. McCormick's arch-Republican Tribune suggested a scheme to penalize states which will not let all their citizens vote...
Oddly enough, Stalin, Bertie McCormick and Henry Wallace all regard the Empire as peace's public enemy No. 1. Disraeli, who should have known, said: "No Caesar or Charlemagne ever presided over a dominion so peculiar." Attlee's Empire, governed largely by anti-imperialist Socialists and inhabited largely by fiercely independent "dependent peoples," is a lot more peculiar than Disraeli...