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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...
...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...
...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...