Word: mccormicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people with money enough to "pioneer" it. Last spring Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune; New York Daily News and nickel-weekly Liberty, rode around the Caribbean in a Sikorsky christened Liberty for benefit of press.* Last week Mr. Patterson's cousin-partner, Robert Rutherford McCormick, sent another Sikorsky from Chicago northeastward. This plane was supposed to fly a Great Circle course to Berlin for the glory of the Chicago Tribune ("world's greatest newspaper"), whose aviation editor, 200-lb. Robert Wood, went aboard as a passenger. The McCormick ship was named, oddly, the 'Untin...
...unlike a small boy was Publisher McCormick when, having been "sold" the 'Untin' Bowler stunt, he found he could not obtain the services of Pilot Carl Ben Eielson, most experienced arctic air navigator alive (Wilkins expeditions). Pilot Eielson, engaged by Aviation Corp., was about to depart for Alaska when Mr. McCormick telephoned to Manhattan from Chicago to persuade, demand, then storm because he could not have...
Robert Law, George M. Pynchon Jr. and Elliot S. Phillips have worked up the Westchester Club. Charles Townsend Ludington is busy at Philadelphia; Major Lorillard Spencer, Count Alfonso Villa and William H. Vanderbilt at Newport; George Hann at Pittsburgh; David S. Ingalls at Cleveland; Robert R. McCormick, Joseph Medill Patterson, Philip Wrigley, John J. Mitchell at Chicago; William G. McAdoo Jr., Tod Ford Jr., Aldrich M. Peck at Los Angeles; William G. Parrott, Peter B. Kyne, Julliard McDonald, Thomas B. Eastland, Alexander Young, Edward H. Clark at San Francisco...
Cousins Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, publishers of the strident Chicago Tribune, gave themselves and each other a Christmas present last week, five years in advance. In the Tribune, over both their signatures [magnified to seven-inch lengths], they published an "estimate" of what their national nickel-weekly Liberty is going to do by way of circulation in the next few years. Always forthright, they made this "estimate" in open comparison to Liberty's staid senior in the nickel-weekly field, The Saturday Evening Post. Always cheerful, their present to themselves was to show, on a graph...
...graph with about four million circulation at the end of 1937. Liberty, however, was shown dashing onward and upward with such verve that it went quite out of sight at the top of the graph in the autumn of 1936. Readers could only conclude that Cousins Patterson & McCormick publish, on their own showing, a magazine where the sky is the limit...