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...last week announced another new hand: New York Herald Tribune Washington Correspondent Jack Steele, who joined the Scripps-Howard staff. Steele. who in 1949 won several prizes for his series on the five-percenter scandals, was frequently mentioned as the successor to the late Bert Andrews to head the Trib's Washington bureau. But when the paper named the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond (TiME, Sept. 21), Steele took Scripps-Howard's offer to join its Washington staff...
Editor Whitelaw Reid of the New York Herald Tribune has long wanted his paper to run the column "State of the Nation," written by the Christian Science Monitor's able Washington Bureau Chief Roscoe Drummond. But the Trib could not buy the column; the Monitor allows no syndication of its features. This week "Whitey" Reid took more direct action to get the column and, at the same time, filled the top spot in his paper's 15-man Washington bureau, second largest newspaper bureau in the capital (first: the New York Times). He named Roscoe Drummond, 51, chief...
...such a change, the Trib could not have found a better man. Drummond, a Syracuse University graduate ('24), started out with the Monitor as a reporter 29 years ago, and has since been everything from correspondent and European manager to chief editorial writer and executive editor. In Washington, his staff spent little time trying for beats, filed only interpretive stories under his ironclad rule: "Relate yesterday's facts to today's events to produce tomorrow's meaning." Says Drummond: "A lot of papers would say we didn't write anything but Sunday features." Drummond, like...
...rough-hewn verse by Reader Lee James Burt first appeared in the column of Chicago Tribune Sports Editor Arch Ward, they caused no comment. But last week the twelve-year-old verses by the forgotten contributor to "In the Wake of the News" rated a whole column in the Trib's news section, and stories in the opposition papers to boot...
...Chicago the Tribune, unwilling to yield to Eastern superiority, vigorously contested Edna's award of what it called "the world's championship for disgustingly filthy cities." The Trib's contention: "She should see our rats . . . rub our air between thumb and forefinger . . . inspect our alleys. Only then should she undertake to award her grand prize, and we know who would win it, hands down...