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...Trib's President and Editor Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid announced that...
Died. Annie Reid Knox, 82, widow of Publisher (Chicago Daily News) and F.D.R.'s wartime Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox; in Coral Gables...
...head coach. This marked the beginning of scientific coaching at Harvard. The team of 1889, guided in its football theories by Forbes, had in the lineup four men who were to direct Harvard coaching for 14 of the next 17 years. They were B. H. Dibblee '99, W. T. Reid '01, J. W. Farley '99, and Percy Haughton. Haughton, perhaps the greatest football coach, was appointed in 1908. Unfortunately for him, the athletic committee had abolished professional coaching, and he served without salary that first year...
That left five Negroes to go, and these, said the school board, failed to meet the last criterion-"adaptability to new situations." Straightfaced, Arlington School Board Superintendent Ray E. Reid testified that the five Negroes sure had "outstanding qualities" to get through the first four criteria, but that was just why they ought not to be admitted to white schools. Reid's reasoning: in white schools these young Negro leaders "would get feelings of inferiority" and would not be such good leaders. At last, under questioning, Reid admitted that the five criteria had not been applied to Arlington...
...sale of the Trib was a poignant episode for the Reids. The first Whitelaw Reid bought the Tribune in 1873, after the death of Founder Horace Greeley; his son Ogden combined it with the remnants of James Gordon Bennett's racy Herald in 1924. But the credentials of the new buyer softened the blow. He is John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, financier, sportsman, diplomat, art collector, lifetime friend of the Reids and possessor of more than $100 million. "We are happy about it," said Brownie Reid, his arm around his mother. "I think it is a fine step," said...