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...Green. 48, just beginning Term II, wants two things: 1) to wipe out the do-nothing record of Term I and to make a real record of accomplishment in the next four years; 2) to break away from the dominance of the Chicago Tribune's isolationist Colonel Bertie McCormick...
Everyone was sure that the minority included the representatives of the Patterson-McCormick papers (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Washington Times-Herald). That very day, Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson's Times-Herald had printed a grisly spread: a page of photographs of American fighting dead, accompanied by a 1940 quotation from Franklin Roosevelt: "... I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars...
...Marshall Field long ago discovered, there are other ways of fighting Colonel Robert McCormick besides broadsides from the editorial page. Last week, Chicago Sunman. Field raided Tribuneman McCormick's prize stable of comic-strip artists, and captured one of the best: Milton Caniff, whose syndicated Terry and the Pirates appears in 220 newspapers with a total circulation of almost...
Died. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, 64, onetime Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois, daughter of Ohio's President-Maker Marcus Hanna, widow of Illinois' Senator Medill McCormick, wife of a one time Congressman from New Mexico; of pancreatitis; in Chicago...
Married. Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, 64, a widower since 1939, aloof, dictatorial publisher of Chicago's blatant Tribune; and Maryland Mathison Hooper, 47, sprightly, modish society matron, ex-Baltimore belle, longtime intimate of the Colonel and his late wife, recently divorced from Chicago Fuel Dealer Henry Hooper; both for the second time; in Chicago...