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...graduate of Columbia University's journalism school, Steele cub-reported in Manhattan for the Herald Trib, became its Chicago correspondent, moved to Washington in 1945. Now, as second in command of the Trib's 14-man bureau, he picks his own assignments, hotfoots it wherever he scents a beat (most of his sniffing the past year has been at RFC). He refuses to run with the press pack after stories or to mix business with pleasure at cocktail parties: "I can get more information by going up in a Senator's office and spending five minutes . . . than...
...Sunday-magazine cover, the Chicago Tribune headlined: I WAS A DOPE ADDICT. It was the first of five chapters telling the sad story of pretty Peggy Ellsworth, 1947's "Miss Michigan," as told to Norma Lee Browning. Trib readers were accustomed to sad stories being told to Reporter Browning. As the Trib's star sob sister, she had masqueraded as a wayward girl, stranded in the city with no money (to measure the size of Chicago's heart), and submitted to phony medical treatment to expose quacks. In Cuba, she scored a beat by swiping the victim...
After the novel Jim started in a Normandy farmhouse had petered out, the Thurbers went to Paris. He got a job on the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune at $12 a week. The Paris Trib's cable tolls were in keeping with the princely salaries it paid its staff: a fat 50 words of variegated news arrived from America each night. Once Jim was handed a flimsy containing the line, "Christy Mathewson died Saranac," and from memory and by Ouija board wrote a column obituary on the great New York Giants pitcher...
Colonel McCormick was also displeased last January when Bazy divorced her husband, Maxwell Peter Miller (who got her profitable La Salle, 111. News Tribune and a radio station as part of the settlement). Shortly afterward, all-knowing Bertie whisked handsome Garvin Tankersley to Chicago to work in the Trib's Sunday section. Last week when Bazy quit, Tankersley was summoned "upstairs" at the Trib, then left "on extended vacation." Asked if she was planning to remarry, Bazy replied: "No-not Mr. Tankersley or Joe McCarthy or any of a half dozen other men whose names have been mentioned with...
...colonel went to Ashland's Menard Hotel for a lake trout dinner. At the colonel's place was a slab of frosted cake the size of a page of the Chicago Tribune. Up in one corner fluttered a full-colored American flag - just as in the Trib. A four-column drawing of the colonel filled the center. And across the top were two red and black eight-column headlines: TRULY AMERICAN AND WELCOME...