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...Tribune viewed the New Dealing Post-Dispatch as a political enemy. But actually, the journalistic ingredients they had in common were more important than those that set them apart. Both the Tribune and the P-D-each in its own way-chose to be independent to a fault. The Trib rarely went along with any political party (see below), while the P-D's editorial support swung from Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932) to Alf Landon (1936), back to Roosevelt (1940 and 1944), to Dewey (1948) and Adlai Stevenson...
...fortress of personal, daily journalism in the U.S. He put the mark of his eccentric, sometimes pugnacious personality into every column of the Tribune. His skillful and intensely opinionated brand of newspapering might often be wrong, but it was never dull. Even those who violently disagreed with what the Trib said in its news and editorial columns candidly admitted that no one said it with more bounce and bite. In the 41 years that he ran the Trib, the Colonel turned it into one of the most readable newspapers in the world, increased its circulation from...
Under his benevolent dictatorship, the Trib's 4,700 well-paid employees learned to expect from their boss the best in office housing and printing equipment. He even provided for his staff in case of an atomic attack, set aside a deep basement of Tribune Tower as a bombproof shelter stocked with cans of pineapple. Characteristically, he announced: "The best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
...rarely visited the Trib's enormous city room, and when he did, he was often followed by his German shepherd dogs. From his huge, marble-topped desk in the Trib's Gothic tower, he bombarded his staff with memos signed "RRMcC." They ranged over thousands of subjects, from international political skulduggery to the most nonsensical trivia. "Everyone should be interested to know how hard a lobster pinches," the Colonel once scribbled. "Crabs, clams, oysters. This information should be easy to get. I suppose...
When he concluded that the sap rises in trees because the spring wind causes a pumping action in the branches, a staffer, missing the chance for an argument-provoking essay in pseudo science, made the mistake of writing a Trib story setting out the scientific facts. The Colonel noted: "Our sap expert missed a trick...