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...most remarkable friendships in the newspaper business last week went on the rocks. Rare anywhere, let alone among publishers, has been the 35-year friendship of Tory Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick and Liberal Samuel Emory Thomason. Pals at Northwestern University law school, they founded the big law firm now known as Kirkland Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis. McCormick took over management of the Chicago Tribune in 1913; Thomason followed him five years later as business manager, rose to vice president and general manager. Thomason left him in 1927, started the tabloid Chicago Times in 1929. Chicago's only New Deal...
...Thomason, hopping mad, construed this as a direct slap at him. Waving aside his editorial writer, Warren H. Pearce, he took a day off to write a return blast, titled "The Integrity of Words." Excerpts: ". . . We proved that Hitler who stands for everything Americans don't stand for, likes the things the Tribune said it stood for. ... The ownership of rich properties does things to some people-to some newspapers. . . . Sometimes such owners mistake wealth and its power for greatness...
Died. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, 75, founder of Labrador's famed Medical Mission, "most useful man in the North American continent"; of a heart attack; in Charlotte...
...with bluebells and red fireweed, but nine months of the year they are choked with ice. The 4,500 natives, mostly of Anglo-Saxon descent, spend their lives catching codfish, huddle together, like wild birds, in bleak villages with names like Run-By-Chance or Port Disappointment. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, whose adopted home it was, called it, as explorers did. "the land God gave to Cain...
Birthdays. Daniel Harris (his pension checks always read "alias George Irving," under which name he enlisted), sole surviving Jewish veteran of the G. A. R., 94; Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Labrador medical missionary, 75; Frederic William Goudy, dean of U. S. type designers, 75; Pope Pius XII, on the first anniversary of his election to the papacy, 64; Associate Justice Hugo La Fayette Black of the Supreme Court...