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...nine-part FBI story, beat the A.P.'s release date on using material from Whitehead's book. Though the Tribune claimed FBI cooperation, the series drew heavily on Whitehead's book for the first three installments, then turned to rewriting FBI stories in the Trib's morgue...
...surprise of the staff, the biggest news at Hearst's Chicago American last week broke on its city-room bulletin board: the American, with an afternoon circulation of 524,823 and a Sunday edition of 706,407, had been sold to the Chicago Tribune. The Trib announced that the American would go on publishing with its present management. Reported price: about $12 million, which newsmen called "fantastically high...
...sale, Editor in Chief William Randolph Hearst Jr. will be able to give his papers in New York, San Francisco. Boston and Baltimore new presses and production equipment that his modernization program has already brought to the remaining eleven Hearst papers. Chicago sat back to watch how the Trib meant to put the American into the black...
...avoid sameness. Dorothy Kilgallen reported that "not once did the Prince look at his bride"; Bob Considine wrote that it was "only once." When the time came for the couple's responses, "both replied 'Oui' firmly . . . Miss Kelly in husky, throaty sincerity," according to the Herald Trib. But in the Times, "each assented with a virtually inaudible 'Oui.' " In any case, the ceremony lasted just 20 minutes (Considine), 16 minutes (Kilgallen), 40 minutes (Post), 15 "emotion-laden" minutes (New York News...
...Grace was "close to tears" in the Post, but for the U.P., "uncontrolled tears coursed down [her] cheeks." How did she make her responses this time? "Je veux (I will)," said the U.P. "Oui," said the Post. "Oui, Monseigneur," said the Times. "Oui, je veux," said the Herald Trib. Finessed Newshen Kilgallen: "[It was] barely audible...