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...northern Quebec, Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick last week came back to work. He stepped briskly out of the elevator of Chicago's Tribune Tower into his oval-shaped office on the 24th floor, greeted his secretary and asked: "Will you please call WGN [the Trib's radio station'] and ask them for the correct time?" A moment later she announced that it was 11:21. McCormick carefully set the gold-banded watch on his right wrist and the silver-banded one on his left. Then, watches synchronized, he sat down beside his big marble...
Bertie McCormick's isolationist Chicago Tribune usually has no more use for the Christian Science Monitor than it does for any other global-minded U.S. newspaper. But last week the Trib found something in the Monitor that it endorsed...
Monitor Correspondent Joseph C. Harsch had reported from Paris that the Trib was a "special asset" to the Administration for its "nuisance value." U.S. diplomats negotiating at European conference tables, he said, could always turn down a proposal with the explanation that "Congress wouldn't stand for it," or the "Tribune would butcher us over that one." Wrote Harsch: "Considering the less than affectionate attitude which has long characterized relations between the State Department [and the Trib], it may come as something of a surprise to readers to learn that the Trib was regarded by American diplomats...
...Trib, delighted with Harsch's backhanded compliment, nevertheless could not resist an improved version for its readers. Said a Trib editorial last week: "From what Mr. Harsch has written, it is clear that, dangerous and costly as the Acheson policies have been, they would have been a great deal more dangerous and a great deal more costly except for the Administration's fear of The Tribune . . . We have [Harsch's] well-informed word for it that The Tribune is the only newspaper in the United States with the strength, the vigor, and the purpose always to serve...
Hutchinson Cowles (rhymes with poles).* Spokane was a town of only 16,000 in 1891 when Cowles, a onetime Chicago Tribune police reporter and son of the Trib's treasurer, at 24 became business manager of the wobbly 16-month-old Spokesman. He won readers with his good local coverage. In the depression of '93, the Spokesman merged with the rival Review, and later Cowles bought out his partners. In 1897, he took over another competitor, the evening Chronicle...