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...presidential desk, but between them now are a Bible, The World Almanac, and two of Author Jack Kennedy's own books: The Strategy of Peace and Profiles in Courage. Some of the President's recent reading-Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and New York Herald Trib-man Bob Donovan's Inside Story of the Eisenhower Administration-cluttered the big presidential desk. Beside them was the coconut shell on which Navy Lieut. Jack Kennedy had scratched a message asking for rescue after his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer during World...
These days, Field handles his end of the fight with increasing assurance and effect. The Trib (circ. 869,958; still dominates Chicago, but Challenger Field is making long strides. His Sun-Times (566,219) is gaining circulation on the Trib and is taking the new advertising at three times the Trib's rate. Field's two papers produce an annual net profit of $2,000,000-a figure that Field confidently expects to rise to $3,000,000 before the end of the year...
Dignity for the Peanut Gallery. Field's success as a Chicago publisher is due in part to the fact that Bertie McCormick is no longer around. One of the last practitioners of firebrand personal journalism, McCormick hoisted the Trib to greatness on his own inexhaustible choler; when he died in 1955, succession passed to men who possessed neither the qualifications nor the will to carry on in the colonel's style. As the Tribune's tumult lessened, Chicagoans began to hear another newspaper voice. It belonged to Marshall Field's Sun-Times...
Watching all this from the Tribune Tower, the Trib's editors pretend unconcern. "He's got a binful of money," says Trib Editor Don Maxwell, "and so do we. We don't feel any challenge." But if the Tribune doesn't, the Sun-Times's Marshall Field Jr. does. Said he last week: "As of right now, we're in an expansion period...
...Word. Papers such as Jock Whitney's New York Herald Tribune warned Jack Kennedy beforehand not to do it. If Bobby wants to be a politician, said the Trib, let him run for office and earn his place. The San Francisco Chronicle enjoined the President-elect against even mentioning Bobby's name as a trial balloon: "The press and the public would be justified in shooting it down in flames...