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...Tribune's "Golden Era," before the Colonel got at the news columns, it produced its only Pulitzer Prizewinner, beloved Cartoonist John T. McCutcheon. But Cartoonist McCutcheon, a sweet-tempered man who could not adapt his pen to McCormick manias, has been pushed aside by Cartoonist Carey Cassius Orr, who is not inhibited by McCormick...
Personal Journalism. Tribune reporters call McCormick-ordered stories "policy assignments" or "dirty stories." At least two Tribune reporters are saving clips of such stories against the day when they can write a treatise on the weirdities of the Colonel's nose for news...
...story in 1857 headed A BRUTE. One James Wheeler was fined $5 for maltreating his wife. The Tribune story concluded: "A few months' experience in breaking stones in the Bridewell would do this Wheeler a 'power of good' and he ought to have been sent there." McCormick retains the method...
Military Manners. Admirer of engineers and military life, big (6 ft. 4 in.) McCormick, who still bears himself with parade-ground erectness, is as inelastic in ducal personal routines and crotchets as in his editing. As for years past he still rises regularly not later than 8:30, goes break-fastless to ride or tramp over his 800-acre estate at Wheaton, 45 minutes from Chicago. Having lost a blaring Tribune campaign to put Chicago on Eastern Standard Time the year round, he runs his estate on E.S.T. nevertheless. When his wife Amie, a capable portrait painter, died two years...
...thereby inspiring Col. Frank Knox's Daily News to its best cartoon of the year. Few days later the Colonel sought to undercut a more serious criticism. In a long letter to the London Daily Sketch's Lord Kemsley "on America's place in world affairs" McCormick wrote: "If it were necessary, and I write this after mature consideration, I believe that many Americans would volunteer to aid you in arms to prevent your being conquered, and I am one of them...