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...earns it in readership. During her successful campaign to drive Conductor Désiré Defauw from command of Chicago's Symphony Orchestra, thousands of Trib readers who had never read a music story read Cassidy to learn how she would scratch Defauw next. At the height of the battle, the Trib received 200 complaining letters in one week from Defauw supporters, and Miss Cassidy offered to resign. Cried Bertie McCormick, "Two hundred letters to the music department? You keep right on writing...
Look's editors had cabled Bigart for "a report on the situation in Korea," after he had made much the same charges early in December in a dispatch to the Herald Tribune from Seoul. MacArthur had ignored the Trib story. But this time, prompted by Radio Commentator Robert Montgomery, MacArthur fired off a scorching reply to Bigart's article...
...process of impeachment," the Tribune noted thoughtfully, testing a scalpel on its horny thumb. It thought that Truman's "present offers to send hundreds of thousands of American boys to their deaths in Europe . . . fall easily within the framework of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' " But the Trib was afraid that "impeachment, if started today, would fail for lack of Democratic votes." On the whole, it preferred a different course anyhow...
...Chicago Tribune, which has been campaigning against grafting policemen, also runs Comic-Strip Detective Dick Tracy. Therefore, when Tracy moved into a palatial home, Trib Reader William J. O'Neil asked an obvious question: How could Tracy afford such a fine house on a detective's pay? Wrote Reader O'Neil: "The Tribune having been a stalwart defender of 'clean government' ... we feel sure that you will launch an immediate investigation of this matter." The Tribune's only comment was an enigmatic headline over the letter: HE BUILT IT OUT OF HIS REWARDS...
...colossal military blunder" and said it is "impossible to put confidence in the military capacity of a headquarters which has so gravely compounded blunder by confusion of facts and intelligence." Manhattan's Daily Worker gleefully pointed out that in an article on Reds in the same issue, the Trib called criticism of MacArthur part of the party line...