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Party. On the sixth ballot at Philadelphia, when the triumphant galleries still shouted "We want Willkie!," when Thomas Dewey had released his delegates and Wendell Willkie had won the Republican nomination, came one last, defiant Illinois Dewey vote. It was cast by Delegate Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, die-hard isolationist, the New Deal's bitterest journalistic enemy. Last week the bitter hate-filled Chicago Tribune read the Republican candidate out of the Republican Party: "Mr. Willkie entered the Republican Party as a mysterious stranger, suddenly and to the astonishment of thousands of the party members...
...Last week the Chicago Opera was in the middle of its six-week season. This year's new angel and ardent publicizer: Publisher Robert ("Bertie") McCormick of the Tribune. There were other novel ties. A chorus whose average age was 25 tickled Chicago eyes as well as ears. The Ballet Theatre, which earned huzzahs at its Manhattan debut last year, joined forces with the singers. Last fortnight a performance of Carmen got columns of publicity: in the last act 18 Chicago cops, led by Chief of Traffic Captain David Flynn, took turns appearing as Spanish dragoons riding nine police...
...Chicago Reaper Scion McCormick, one of many non-Okie notables "bogged down" in scenic, climatic New Mexico (TIME, Oct. 28), thanks for another appraisal...
...RECENTLY BOGGED DOWN: CYRUS MCCORMICK, JOHN J. RASKOB, PAT HURLEY, GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, MARGARET SULLAVAN, DIXIE DAVIS, BETTY RIGGS...
Apparently embarrassed was Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune. For the last 18 years the Tribune has favored acquisition by the U. S. of naval bases in the Western Hemisphere. Last week the Tribune, in its first edition, ran a 166-line editorial, We Get the Bases, pointing to the President's deal as a triumph for the Tribune. On page 1 the Tribune printed a caustic cartoon titled Nearer and Nearer the Brink, condemning the deal as an act of war (see cut, p. 77). In later editions the cartoon disappeared, was replaced by another kidding...