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...paper got the entire document (in 44 pages) into most of its Wednesday morning editions. Behind that startling accomplishment lay a Monday-night decision by Tribune Publisher Stanton Cook and Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, plus some inspired legwork by the paper's Washington staff. Early Tuesday morning, a Trib jet carrying three editors and two printing superintendents took off for Dulles Airport, where a copy of the transcripts arrived at 8:30 a.m., six hours ahead of the regular distribution. Trib executives would not reveal how they got their early copy. Says Kirkpatrick: "We knocked on every door in Washington...
...Chicago, 18 typesetters produced a remarkably clear and error-free text that Chicagoans could buy the next morning -plus the paper-for the regular 150. The larger-than-normal press run of 800,000 virtually sold out, as did 1,200 copies flown to Washington Wednesday morning. The Trib spent $50,000 on extra newsprint alone. The paper is now selling copies of the transcript for 50c and filling a heavy mail-order demand at $1.50 each...
...spate of kidnapings -Patricia Hearst, Atlanta Constitution Editor Reg Murphy, Mrs. Eunice Kronholm of Minneapolis, eight-year-old John Calzadilla of Long Island-there has been one major exception to the generally sensible coverage of these stories: the Minneapolis television and press, including Allen's Tribune. Though the Trib was not alone in pursuing the Kronholm kidnap story with excessive zeal, its reportorial ingenuity and aggressiveness at times crowded its competitors -and its usual sense of discretion...
...anyone, including newsmen, who happened to be monitoring weather reports on a citizens' band frequency close to the police radio wave length. Though the FBI had hoped to keep its contacts with the kidnapers secret-it still did not know where Mrs. Kronholm was being held -the Trib revealed that efforts were being made to exchange a ransom for Mrs. Kronholm...
...Warm. Meanwhile, Trib Reporter Harley Sorensen, 42, set out in his car on the third night after the kidnaping to try to locate the ransom "drop" point. Following instructions from his city desk via a short-wave receiver, Sorensen cruised through the drop area until he saw a car that he had been following stop by a phone booth on a lonely road. He presumed that it was the agent impersonating Mrs. Kronholm's husband, and he pulled his auto into a side road, hoping to witness what few reporters ever have: the drop-off and possible pickup...