Word: trib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his "foreign" bureau in Manhattan, he published an exhaustive four column takeout on the New York press. The Trib headlined...
...article was signed by Charles Gotthart, 43, whose father was a Trib man before him, but it had Bertie McCormick's inky fingerprints all over it. Samples...
...first time in newspaper history, said the Trib, a murderer had been named by a newspaper and his crimes detailed before he had admitted them or been indicted for them.* "So great was public confidence in the Tribune," it crowed, "that other newspapers . . . reprinted the story solely because the Tribune said it was so. . . . For a while, Heirens maintained his innocence. But the whole world believed his guilt. The Tribune had said he was guilty...
Crosby, a 34-year-old bachelor, writes his daily piece while sunning himself on the beach at Fire Island, N.Y. He seldom goes to the Trib office, shuns pressagents and radio bigwigs. "I've never gone to a broadcast," he says. "I find that people in radio can be awfully damned convincing...
...Tribune asked Reporter John Crosby to write a radio column, he had two strikes against him: he knew nothing about radio; he did not even own a set. Last week, less than three months after Crosby bought a portable and began an ear-aching routine of constant listening, the Trib decided that his five-a-week columns were too good to keep, signed him for September syndication. Said Managing Editor George Cornish: "He turned out to be a damned sight better than I had any right to expect...