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...machines and their operators both had weaknesses. The liars, gaining experience, became so accomplished that Policeman John E. Reid, Chicago's lie-detector expert, has had to modernize his machines to cope with trickier lying...
...from Appleton. The prestigious Forum is the pet child of the New York Herald Tribune's tiny, self-assured vice president, Mrs. Ogden Reid. The newspaper business has no comparable public-service venture. It also has no one who quite compares with Mrs. Reid. Eleventh child of an Appleton, Wis. family, she was all set to teach Latin when she left Manhattan's Barnard College, 42 years ago. Instead she took a job in New York as social secretary to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and proceeded to memorize the Social Register...
...London, where Whitelaw Reid was the U.S. Ambassador, the Reids' efficient secretary met the Reids' carefree son. Ogden and Helen Rogers were married in Appleton. Old Whitelaw Reid had taken over the Tribune after Horace Greeley's death in 1872; Ogden inherited it. Helen Reid stayed away from the Trib until her husband called for help in 1918, when $15 million of the family fortune had been pumped into...
...sixth in circulation among Manhattan's nine daily newspapers, but far higher than most of the others in the quality of its writing and its coverage, and its typography. In some departments, notably music and the dance, its critics are superior to the Times's. Under Mrs. Reid, the hiring & firing has shown spotty judgment. A good man like Columnist Franklin P. Adams was let go; Walter Lippmann was brought in; so was Lucius Beebe, with his ormolu prose. In the days of Alva Johnston and of Stanley Walker, the Trib's city coverage was the sprightliest...
Editorially its policy has wandered up & down, but usually ends up being right wing at home and left wing abroad, in a Republican sort of way. Under Mrs. Reid, the feminists have had their day; the Trib now has 13 women reporters out of 60 on the local staff, and a half-dozen women executives. The Trib's world, however, proved not big enough to hold both Mrs. Reid and one of her hired feminists, Dorothy Thompson, who declared for Roosevelt in 1940, and dealt herself off the Trib...