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After the family scuffle that kicked the New York Herald Tribune's President Whitelaw Reid upstairs in 1955, younger brother Ogden ("Brownie") Reid took over the ailing paper with the titles of president, publisher and editor. Brownie Reid, Yale '49, brought with him a $2,250,000 insurance company loan on the 20-story Herald Tribune Building in midtown Manhattan (41st Street) and an ambitious two-year plan for a "lighter, brighter" Trib...
...threat of a proxy war was stemmed only by a deal that split Loew's board. At the February meeting Vogel was allowed to choose six directors, the Tomlinson-Meyer group another six, with a neutral member in New York Herald Tribune President and Editor Ogden R. Reid...
...Rides Again? Last week, presumably weary of the boardroom battle, neutral Director Reid resigned his umpire's job. With him went two other directors. General Dynamics' President Frank Pace Jr. and Manhattan Attorney George A. Brownell,* both of whom have voted with President Vogel. Appealing to his stockholders for help, embattled President Vogel warned that the dissidents planned to put Contractor Tomlinson in as Loew's chairman, with TV Man Meyer as president. He also charged, as a final shot, that the man behind it all was none other than longtime M-G-M Mogul Louis...
Ogden Rogers Reid, president and editor of the N.Y. Herald Tribune. LL.D...
Unabashed at being caught with shears in hand by its leading competitor, the Express next day awarded the prize to a Mrs. Anne Reid, who had apparently not read the Mirror lately. Her entry: "Read Any Good Thermometers Lately...