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...listening to Mr. Early's pronouncements. A strapping 6 ft. 2, he was just a plain high-school-educated newshawk covering police courts, bankers' conventions, scientific meetings for the Chicago Tribune until one day in 1930. Then another Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, was shot in Chicago. Publisher McCormick of the Tribune put Boettiger on the case. He stuck to it, wrote the Tribune's stories on it, right up to the capture and conviction of Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). In 1932 when Franklin D. Roosevelt flew to Chicago to accept the Democratic nomination...
Last week the following were news: William McCormick Blair, first cousin of Publisher Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, graduated from Yale in 1907. That year a bright young Chicagoan named Francis Augustus Bonner graduated from Harvard. Yaleman Blair worked in Chicago's Northern Trust Co., famed training ground for brokers and bankers, then joined Lee, Higginson & Co. Harvardman Bonner became financial editor of the defunct Chicago Evening Post, a railroad statistician, then also joined Lee, Higginson. Last week Mr. Blair, 50, and Mr. Bonner, 49, teamed together to form the underwriting and general securities house of Blair...
...mark for the first time. Admittedly M. Flandin-younger than Roosevelt, Mussolini or Stalin*- faces a titanic task in attempting to bring French economy back to an even keel without invoking some spectacular "ism." Interviewed last week by the New York Times's smart Anne O'Hare McCormick, the tall, big-boned, broad-browed Premier declared...
...McCormick refuses to compare Grant and Lee but implies that Lee was defeated not so much by attrition and force of numbers as by Grant's superior tactics and determination. He brushes aside Grant's heavy losses: "Criticism of Grant for incurring heavy casualty lists in utterly destroying his adversary refutes itself." Biographer McCormick lays many a florid wreath at his paladin's feet: "A hero, without fear and without reproach, who needed neither the panoply of war nor the customary mannerisms of command to buoy up his iron will." He sums up his admiration by declaring...
...onetime aide on General Pershing's A. E. F. staff and artillery officer in the line, Major Robert Rutherford Mc-Cormick emerged from the War with a D. S. M., a colonelcy and decided opinions about warfare. Six feet four. 200-lbs.. 54, Tribune Publisher McCormick is variously called dynamic and domineering. For 25 years, in his leisure moments, he has mulled over the "neglected" figure of his hero, Grant, gradually got his militant musings on paper...