Word: trib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...someone to the door to pick up the morning's copy of his Chicago Tribune, "World's Greatest Newspaper." It came right into the living room of his Cantigny Farm in suburban Wheaton, Ill., through a gadget that brought him the Tribune in facsimile (TIME, April 29). Trib executives had instructions to radio the condensed version there three times a week before the Colonel sat down to breakfast...
...Trib, whose Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick acquired some of his imperfectly assimilated education in the British public schools, answered in an editorial that Mr. White was the victim of "inspired propaganda," probably emanating from the British Foreign Office. Added the Trib: "Calling us names . . . has made us the best known newspaper in the world. We have succeeded the Times of London in that respect...
...that is unmatched among the sopranos of this country." The accolade went not to one of the seven singers making their debuts this season, but to bosomy Yugoslav Zinka Milanov, singing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni for about the 20th time. Just five days earlier, another Trib critic had panned her. Wrote he: "[Her] decrease in avoirdupois [has] brought with it a disturbing lessening of her powers...
With the same energy she had put into suffrage fights, she helped bring the palsied Tribune back to life. She learned to sell advertising the hard way-on the street. She had a lot to say in the Trib's rise to its present high place, a pinnacle that would seem even higher if the view were not obscured by its great morning rival, the Times. The Trib is 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...
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...