Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Climbing on a series of ladders form the bell tower, 52-year-old Young vainly attempted to lift off the seven-foot top piece of the steeple yesterday for regliding...
Today, or the next windless day, Young will paint yellow all that is presently gold on the tower. Later he will apply gold leaf...
Under his benevolent dictatorship, the Trib's 4,700 well-paid employees learned to expect from their boss the best in office housing and printing equipment. He even provided for his staff in case of an atomic attack, set aside a deep basement of Tribune Tower as a bombproof shelter stocked with cans of pineapple. Characteristically, he announced: "The best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
Signed: RRMcC. Colonel McCormick's real journalistic achievements were often lost in the tidal waves of vituperation that crashed around (but never engulfed) his tower fortress on North Michigan Avenue. In a 1936 poll of Washington correspondents, the Tribune was placed among the "least fair and reliable" newspapers in the U.S.; others denounced it as a "ceaseless drip of poison...
...rarely visited the Trib's enormous city room, and when he did, he was often followed by his German shepherd dogs. From his huge, marble-topped desk in the Trib's Gothic tower, he bombarded his staff with memos signed "RRMcC." They ranged over thousands of subjects, from international political skulduggery to the most nonsensical trivia. "Everyone should be interested to know how hard a lobster pinches," the Colonel once scribbled. "Crabs, clams, oysters. This information should be easy to get. I suppose...