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...sold advertising, worked on the editorial side, turned herself into a well-rounded newspaper executive. After she took over, she added to the Trib's prestige by such activities as the annual Herald Tribune Forum and a host of civic activities. Of all her plans, Helen Reid has been most determined about one. At the right time she wanted to step out and let her two sons, Whitelaw and Ogden, take over...
...Whitey (Yale '36) is a quiet, thoughtful ex-Navy aviator; he has been editor for the past eight years. Stocky, dark-haired Brownie (yale '49) is a driving, fast-talking ex-paratrooper; he has worked in a variety of jobs, mostly on the business side. For years Trib staffers have tried to guess which one-Whitey or Brownie-would end up as boss. Last week Helen Reid ended the guessing game...
Brownie Reid has been moving closer and closer to the job he calls the "chief executive officer" of the Trib ever since he went to work summers as a photographer on the paper. From the photo staff he went on at the paper to become a mail clerk, reporter and columnist, writing a weekly column ("The Red Underground"). But he made his biggest mark on the business side. Shipped to Paris two years ago to shore up the Trib's Paris edition, he revamped the budget, got more ads and circulation and put it handsomely in the black...
...week's end, as they awaited the reading of the Colonel's last instructions, none of the family stockholders was expected to take over the Trib. Instead, it was predicted that the Trib would be controlled, like the New York Daily News, by the family trustees and the paper's top executives. Three top executives: Chesser Campbell, 57, vice president of the Tribune Co.; Don Maxwell, 54, the paper's managing editor; and J. Howard Wood, 54, former financial editor and now business manager. Working with the trustees, they are expected...
...Many of the shares of stock held outside the McCormick-Patterson Trust are scattered among the estates of former Trib executives and employees. The Colonel also held proxies for many of them...