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Denmark: William McCormick Blair Jr., 44, lawyer with no diplomatic experience. Second cousin of the Chicago Tribune's late publisher, Colonel Robert McCormick, moneyed Bill Blair served as administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, became his law partner, campaign manager and general political handyman...
...crucial match was the heavyweight bout. A Harvard win by decision would tie the meet, a pin would give the varsity the match and the Big Three title. But Tom Gaston could only wrestle Yale's Bill McCormick to a 2-2 draw...
...church usher. Ho neither looks nor acts like a fighter, but the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News is enthusiastically engaged in a scrap. What is more, he picked it. With his two papers, Field is hurling a daily challenge at the late Robert Rutherford McCormick's big and powerful morning Tribune...
Dignity for the Peanut Gallery. Field's success as a Chicago publisher is due in part to the fact that Bertie McCormick is no longer around. One of the last practitioners of firebrand personal journalism, McCormick hoisted the Trib to greatness on his own inexhaustible choler; when he died in 1955, succession passed to men who possessed neither the qualifications nor the will to carry on in the colonel's style. As the Tribune's tumult lessened, Chicagoans began to hear another newspaper voice. It belonged to Marshall Field's Sun-Times...
...Chicago Sun, the creation of Field's father, Marshall Field III. Heir to a department store fortune accumulated by his grandfather, the senior Field was also a fervent New Dealer and devotee of liberal causes. He founded his paper mainly to give battle to McCormick's ultraconservative, Roosevelt-baiting Tribune. The paper was something of a flop. By 1950, after turning the Sun into a tabloid, merging it with the Chicago Times and spending $10 million of his own money, the elder Field had succeeded only in evoking the colonel's amusement ("Marshall Field is an authority...