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...able and hard-working newsman who broke in on the Trib in 1920 and rose steadily, Don Maxwell has charge of the Tribune's 476-man editorial staff, though not necessarily its editorial policy. Similarly, General Manager J. Howard Wood, 59, runs the business side, but he is answerable to the key man in the triumvirate: Chesser M. Campbell, 62, who is not only Tribune publisher but president of the Tribune Co., a complex of 14 corporations-among them two ship lines, a paper mill, and the New York Daily News -that last year grossed $320 million...
Under the triumvirate's direction, the paper slowly changed its flamboyant ways. The Trib threw out most of the phonetic spelling of which McCormick had been so fond-"frate," "photograf," "soder"-leaving only a few traces, e.g., "altho." The "policy" stories began to fade away, and the news got straighter play. When Chicago played host to Britain's Queen Elizabeth six months ago, no one gave her a more cordial reception than the once rabidly Anglophobic Tribune. The Trib's own news-column byliners and the editorial page at times even find themselves in disagreement...
...while, the Trib has continued to cover Chicagoland better than any of its competitors and has untiringly followed the colonel's command to "furnish that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide." No scent of corruption goes unchallenged by the paper's hard-toothed bloodhounds...
Conceded the Trib: "Miss Genauer stands corrected." To make everything clear, the Trib printed a Stella...
With stocks, bonds and Buchwald, the Paris Trib has left other English-language papers far behind on the Continent; the New York Times's slender International edition (circulation about 8,000), printed in Amsterdam, reaches readers a full day or more after the Trib. "Le New York," as the French fondly call it, is more than a daily paper-it is a European institution, like the Flea Market and the Bourse, the Rhine and the Rhone...