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...year-old New York Herald Tribune, tradition-proud, independent Republican and ailing, passed last week from the patrician hands of the Reid family, its owners for 85 years. For the announcement, the Reids gathered in a seventh-floor office of the Trib's Manhattan building on dingy West 41st Street: tiny, doughty Helen Rogers Reid, 75, who ran the paper from the 1947 death of her husband Ogden Mills Reid until 1955, and her sons Whitelaw, 45, and Ogden, 33, who thereafter worked mightily to cure its ills. "This is a development," said boyish Ogden ("Brownie") Reid, "that...
...suggestion of Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune, she started "On the Record," the next year began a monthly chitchat for the Ladies' Home Journal. By World War II, she was read across the U.S. (peak circulation: some 200 papers in 1941), feared in Government circles...
Married. Kim Stanley (real name: Patricia Kimberly Reid), 33, star of Broadway's Bus Stop, and of Hollywood's The Goddess, whose training at the Actors' Studio made her the standard Brando of U.S. actresses; and TV Actor Alfred Ryder, 39; she for the third time, he for the first; in The Bronx...
With Jock's jack in hand, hard-working Brownie Reid enriched his improvement formula, reorganized and improved news coverage and the editorial page, happily watched circulation creep up to 37,400 by March. But as the Trib struggled and talked wistfully of the desirability of going to 10? on the city newsstands (the afternoon-paper price in New York City), the Times held coolly to its 5? price and made money, while the Trib, competitively held at a nickel, slipped into...
...investing another $2,000,000 in the company, Whitney can get 60% control. An estimated $2,000,000 more will be needed to pay off debts and put the Trib on a sound operating basis. McCrary is certain Whitney will buy in ("Jock's a stayer"). But Reid shrugged off questions with "You'll have to ask Mr. Whitney." and in London, Whitney would say only: "My interest in the Herald Tribune is continuing. Further talks are going...