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...club, whose members include such bigwigs as Meatpacker Harold Swift, Educator Robert Hutchins, Senator Paul Douglas and Democratic Boss Jake Arvey, put the question in a polite letter to the Trib's Managing Editor J. Loy Maloney. Replied Maloney: "Our readers deserve every scrap of information concerning the principal in a story-whether it be a crime story or a story which is complimentary to the persons mentioned or merely noncommittal on that point. We merely report the facts...
Leaders of Thought. The City Club, which thinks that the Negro tag helps "to set Negroes apart" and thus adds to racial tensions in a city which has some 450,000 Negroes, was not satisfied. Last week, after seven months and more letters, the club took its case to Trib readers and the "leaders of thought in 'Chicagoland' " by mailing out 2,000 copies of an eight-page pamphlet "John Smith, Negro." In it, the City Club made its case against use of the racial label, arguing that "in a paper that emphasizes crimes of violence...
Furthermore, "selection of the Negro group for this treatment is arbitrary." It is not used against Jews, Mexicans, Poles or other groups, but is "selectively used against the poor and friendless [Negroes]. Ralph Bunche ... is not usually labeled." (But when Bunche won the Nobel Prize a fortnight ago, the Trib noted the newsworthy fact that he is a Negro as did other U.S. newspapers and wire services...
Things had gone from bad to worse with 1948's Prince Charming, Winthrop Rockefeller, and his Cinderella, the former Barbara Paul Sears, according to the Chicago Tribune. "I will never give him a divorce," the Trib quoted "Bobo" as saying. "I want him to suffer the way he has made me suffer; as he has humiliated me before the world." Later, Bobo told newsmen that the Trib had "somewhat distorted" her remarks but "we are still very much married...
After three years of able postwar reporting in Germany, she became the Trib's Tokyo bureau chief in late June, was one of the first reporters to get to Korea when the war started. She flew to Seoul's Kimpo airfield, joined the retreat to Suwon, later covered the heartbreaking retreats of green, outnumbered U.S. troops. ("This is how America lost her first infantryman," she began her story of seeing Private Kenneth Shadrick fall in action.) She fought off attempts by officers, worried about her safety, to ship her out of Korea (TIME, July 24, 31), now stays...