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...height of its power and influence in the 1930s, Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune feared nothing. Not even the English language. With the help of a scholarly staffer named James O'Donnell Bennett, McCormick set out in the Trib to change Chicagoland's spelling habits. "Simplified spelling" made its debut on Jan. 28, 1934, and schoolteachers all over the Middle West found themselves fighting to save pupils from such Tribisms as hocky, fantom and definitly. Freighters became fraters and sheriffs sherifs. A Trib editorial proclaimed that there was "rime and reason for every alteration...
...significant segment of the readership came to feel the self-proclaimed "world's greatest newspaper" was rather the world's gratest. By the time McCormick died in 1955, the list of simplified words, which once ran as high as 80, was already shrinking. Reluctantly, the Trib shot down the sherif and later sank the frater. "Readers," sighs Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, "wondered if Tribune editors knew how to spell." The latest style book retains only a few relics of the Bennett era, most of them now widely accepted: tho, thru, analog. Prime reason for the return to standard spelling...
Died. Helen Rogers Reid, 87, president, then chairman of the board (1947-55) of the now-defunct New York Herald Tribune; in Manhattan. Wife of the Trib's Editor-President Ogden Reid, she made her name on the business side as a crack ad saleswoman who had, as one colleague put it, "the persistence of gravity." She went to work in 1918, was responsible for doubling linage by 1923, and after that headed the ad department until 1947, when she assumed command at the death of her husband. In politics, she continued the Trib's tradition of moderate...
...sophisticated offspring, urban renewal). In Haiti, he learned that "the real details"--like the fact that a Haitian minister was a pin-ball addict who had the tilt sign turned off whenever he played--were never reported. Back in Washington for a few months, he finally left for the Trib after "covering about my fourth sewer hearing." In '62, he joined the New York paper as a writer-illustrator, pleased to discover it had retained its old-fashioned, friendly newsroom with its twenties atmosphere...
...Whitney, who personally oversaw operations at the New York Trib, turned his interests away from publishing in the wake of its demise. His latest purchase invites speculation that the mourning period is over...