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High score for silly talk was always given to the late great Stephen Decatur, whose Our-Country-Right-Or-Wrong speech runs in the Tribune's massed-head as its slogan. When Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Tribune, made his annual inspection visit, someone was told off to stand in front of the score board. Last week Publisher McCormick, inspecting his Paris branch, had other things to think of beside blackboards. He learned that his European paper had been wizened to its winter size (eight and twelve pages) all summer, that the competing U.S. daily, the Paris...
First floral offering to be delivered to Col. Knox was a large basket of chrysanthemums-about $25 worth. Who could have sent it? His good friends Senator George Higgins Moses or Col. Hanford MacNider? Publisher McCormick of the Tribune? William Wrigley, Jr.? Adman Albert Davis Lasker? Or even "W. R." (Hearst) himself? The Colonel grubbed eagerly through the bouquet for a card, found none. Then he became aware of a sly smile on the face of a rotund, grey-haired man standing near. Boomed the Colonel: "You old sonofagun! I knew it was you!" and the other man waddled...
...week to safeguard the Freedom of the Press. It was created under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and made public at a meeting of newsmen and Foundation leaders aboard the S. S. He de France in dock at Manhattan. By telephone from Chicago, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose 51st birthday it was, formally accepted honorary chairmanship. Chairman is Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer of Hearst's New York Journal, late of the Evening World, keynoter of the 1928 Democratic national convention. Vice chairmen are Editor Marlen Edwin Pew of Editor & Publisher and Editor Frank Parker Stockbridge...
...Association has prospered, has had to be divided into nine districts across the land. Each year each district holds a picnic; each year the national organization holds a dinner in a Manhattan hotel. These are not apt to be attended by such members as Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Mrs. David Hunter McAlpin or Percy Avery Rockefeller. More likely to be present are Professor William Henry A. Rockefeller, music teacher of Newark, N. J.; Albert Rockefeller, 45, operator of the Boston Shoe Repair Shop on Academy st., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Traveling Auditor George C. Rockefeller of United Engineers & Constructors...
...occasion gave excuse for a tremendous social stir. A bustling series of luncheons, dinners, cocktail parties and balls was organized. Chief organizer was grey-haired but vivacious Mrs. Lucy Blair Linn, cousin of Col. McCormick, wife of a Chicago stockbroker. To facilitate conversation, she sent around Spanish-English dictionaries to be placed beside each guest sitting next to an Argentine. When fierce competition arose between hostesses as to who should entertain whom the night of the first game, Mrs. Linn placed the names of all eligible guests in one of her hats, had the competing hostesses draw them...