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Among the dozen men whom the Trib praised for "putting America first" was F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, who is generally considered a left-wing spokesman...
When he got home last week from his trip to the Orient, Colonel Robert R. McCormick found a reception committee waiting on the sidewalk. They were pickets from the International Typographical Union, on strike against the Trib and five other major Chicago dailies. The Colonel walked past them into his Tribune Tower...
...Rockies gave the Colonel his first idea. As soon as he landed in San Francisco, he telegraphed the Trib: "When the brass ceases preparing for the last war, it will find these mountain tops excellent places for antiaircraft artillery. . . . They will produce surprise fire on the invader. With air shelters for our people, mountain top . . . artillery and a superior air force, we can, as always, defy the world...
...lift the curtain, Barnes picked four of the Trib's brightest and best young Rover Boys (TIME, Jan. 27). From Paris: Bureau Chief Walter Kerr, 35, who covered wartime Moscow, and Bill Attwood, 28, a World War II infantry captain. From London: Bureau Chief Ned Russell, 30, ex-U.P. man and Trib war correspondent. From New York: Editorial Writer Russell Hill, 29, who reported World War II from Tunis to Berlin...
When the ten weeks were up, the four met on the Fontainebleau estate of the Trib's European Edition Editor Geoffrey Parsons Jr. to drink applejack and compare notes. They wrote three articles each, but nobody's drafts pleased anybody else. So they sat down and rewrote the series together, comma by comma; sometimes one sentence went through five versions. Joe Barnes ran the articles as cabled...