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...Leak. All this feverish activity proved to be too much for the Times exclusive. In Manhattan the New York bureau of the Chicago Tribune is in the Times's building, and the Trib got wind of what was going on, tipped off Trib Managing Editor Don Maxwell in Chicago. He telephoned New York Times Managing Editor Catledge, tried to make a deal: he would split the costs of preparing the texts if the Times would cut in the Trib. When Catledge refused. Maxwell went after the text himself. He told his Washington bureau to stir up Illinois Senator Everett...
Congratulations. By 4:50, when other newsmen officially got their copies of the report for release at 9 p.m., the Times, with as many as 84 Linotype machines at j work, had an 18-hour head start in setting the text. But the Chicago Trib, which learned how to print fast from photoengravings during a long (1947-49) typographical strike, remembered an easy way to catch up. A Trib staffer flew two copies of the documents to Chicago, where the paper quickly made photoengravings of the full conference record. Thus it was able to print a supplement with a reproduction...
After the Times and Trib were out, Times Editor Catledge phoned the Trib's Maxwell to congratulate him on his fast finish after his slow start. Joked Maxwell: "It's a mutual-admiration society. We've been agreeing with each other that w.e're the two greatest editors in the country...
...Long after the paper was printed, Trib typesetters had to set the full text in type anyway to satisfy the "bogus" type requirement (TIME, Nov. 24, 1952) of the typographical union's featherbedding rules...
...World-Telegram local ad manager that the Hearst chain grabbed him, made him assistant general manager. In 1936 the New York Herald Tribune hired him away as ad manager, eventually made him executive vice president and publisher. A year ago, after the death of Steve Hannagan, Robinson left the Trib to boss the publicity agency. He has resigned from Robinson-Hannagan, but the firm will continue to handle Coke's public relations...