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Over the years, TIME'S Press covers have demonstrated the spread of TIME'S interest. They range from such press lords as William Randolph Hearst (Aug. 15, 1927; May 1, 1933 and March 13, 1939) and the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick (May 7, 1928 and June 9, 1947) to such comic-strippers as Milton Caniff (Jan. 13, 1947) and Al Capp (Nov. 6, 1950); from such pundits as Walter Lippmann (March 30, 1931 and Sept. 27, 1937) to such scriveners as Walter Winchell (July 11, 1938); from such publishers as the New York Daily News...
...rich men. Among them: Cleveland Inventor John C. Lincoln, who built the now-famous Camelback Inn on the lower slopes of Camelback Mountain; Chicago Chewing Gum Magnate William Wrigley, who founded the fabulous Arizona Biltmore and started a golf course colony nearby; International Harvester Heir Fowler McCormick, who went a little farther east into Paradise Valley to start what is now the richest winter residential area in the state...
With Motel, American drama has reached the nadir in its quest for the misbegotten hero: enter Wally Troy, retired major league baseball star (hit .325, 127 rbi's in his best year) and present owner of the Dugout Motel. Helping Myron McCormick as Wally is Vicki Cummings as Ruby, his complaining wife. Ruby has discovered that old baseball players make lousy motel owners, and she yearns for the old days when she had something to cheer about...
...Ministers." At McCormick's death, three veteran hands, previously groomed for the succession, stepped into his shoes. They had no intention of really filling them. "He was the duke of Chicago," said one of the three, Indiana-born Editor William Donald Maxwell, 60, "and we are his ministers...
Under the triumvirate's direction, the paper slowly changed its flamboyant ways. The Trib threw out most of the phonetic spelling of which McCormick had been so fond-"frate," "photograf," "soder"-leaving only a few traces, e.g., "altho." The "policy" stories began to fade away, and the news got straighter play. When Chicago played host to Britain's Queen Elizabeth six months ago, no one gave her a more cordial reception than the once rabidly Anglophobic Tribune. The Trib's own news-column byliners and the editorial page at times even find themselves in disagreement...