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When Msgr. McCormick denounced the euthanasia bill as "anti-God" did he forget Who said "Blessed are the merciful...
That the name meant nothing at all to most voters was no oddity in long-suffering Chicago. Republican mayoral Candidate Russell William Root had been hand-picked by Governor Dwight Green, who sent him over to the Tribune Tower for approval. Colonel Bertie McCormick, who had long maintained a cynical truce with local Democrats, rumbled his assent. After what had happened to the Democrats in November, he was sure the G.O.P. could now take the mayoralty-with anybody...
...Marshall Field's Chicago Sun, which had forsworn preachy crusades for homely human interest news, the story was a Page One natural. It was about a man and a dog. What made it even better, the man was the Sun's archrival, Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick. Colonel McCormick had taken his German shepherd, Lotta, to a suburban kennel to have a thorn removed from her left front paw, and Lotta had run away...
...night and a day, the Sun reported, 26 cops busily beat the bushes of the North Shore. None won McCormick's $100 reward. Then Trib Reporter Chester Nichols was assigned to the hunt. After 22 sleepless hours he tracked Lotta down. When admiring cops asked him how he'd done it, Newshawk Nichols replied: "Simple. Until the Tribune hired me four years ago I was the dog-catcher at Evanston." The Sun's headline: SCOOP! MCCORMICK DOG OUTSMARTED BY TRIBUNE...
...Objected Dr. Rolla E. Dyer, director of the National Institute of Health (in Cissie Patterson's Washington Times-Herald): "There is less & less reason every year for fear of old age. ... It is silly to talk about 'hopeless' [diseases] in these times." Cried Monsignor Robert E. McCormick, presiding judge of the ecclesiastical tribunal in New York's Catholic Archdiocese: "Anti-God, unAmerican, and a menace to veterans...