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Ruth Elizabeth McCormick Miller, daughter of ex-Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and Husband Maxwell Miller bought three acres of Illinois cornfield and two refrigerator cars, planned to set the cars in the cornfields and move in by Christmas...
...outcome should be a first-rate show for bystanders. For Colonel McCormick at 61 may be the least popular U.S. publisher, as well as the most arrogant, contentious and unpredictable, but he is one of America's most successful publishers and a hard man to lick. Only two years ago Hearst's Herald & Examiner folded, just like every other rival Chicago morning paper...
...Terrible Tribune. In his 27 years as publisher of the biggest full-size U.S. newspaper (circ. 1,076,866), Colonel McCormick has acquired such titles as "Lord McCormick, the Earl of Wheaton," the "Duke of Chicago," the "Midwest Medici." Once called "the greatest mind of the 14th Century," he has inspired at least one high-spirited skit...
...success? -its gain of 264,000 circulation in the last five years?-its undeniable influence on isolationist sentiment in the five Midwest States which it calls "Chicagoland?" The late, great Charles Dana prescribed one sure-fire recipe for circulation: get your paper talked about. Of that art Colonel McCormick, with his blatant methods, is a past master. The Tribune's subtitle ("The World's Greatest Newspaper") is an outstanding example...
Left. By the late Harold Fowler McCormick, Chicago reaper millionaire: an estate of about $7,500,000. Half goes to his widow (his third wife, Adah Wilson), the other half is shared equally by his son and two daughters. Inheritance taxes take nearly half the entire estate...