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...Peyton Coe read a list of the twelve foremost dead inventors in U. S. history, as chosen by the ballots of a secret committee. The twelve: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Robert Fulton, Charles Goodyear (vulcanized rubber), Charles Martin Hall (commercial aluminum), Elias Howe (sewing machine), Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper), Ottmar Mergenthaler (linotype), Samuel Finley Breese Morse, George Westinghouse, Wilbur Wright, Eli Whitney...
Your biting comments on Publisher Robert McCormick (TIME, Nov. 2) may be entirely in accord with the facts. Most Southerners, having scant reason for loving him, are quite ready to believe the worst about him. Nevertheless, members of the Louisiana Press Association are not willing to go along with you when you say: "Publisher McCormick is aloof and domineering . . . possesses such an aversion to human contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupé, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift...
...reason newspaper men in this State have difficulty in visualizing Publisher McCormick in such a role is this: In 1932 the State Press Association invited Colonel McCormick to speak at their convention being held in this city. McCormick accepted and later wired that an overlooked previous engagement would prevent his attendance. The press had laid great store by his coming and wired back it would change the convention date to suit his convenience, if he would come...
...Colonel McCormick was evidently touched. His answer was: "Holy smoke! If you want me that bad I'll come...
Sirs: . . . I have often wondered why a city like Chicago cannot have a good morning paper. The morning paper reader must choose between Hearst or McCormick, in which case I'll take vanilla...