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...looking for news, asked McCormick what he thought about the dispute between India and Pakistan over the status of Kashmir (TIME, Jan. 9). Replied McCormick: "I did not know there was such a place before I landed here," thus convicted himself of failing to read his own newspaper"; the Trib's Delhi correspondent, Percy Wood, has filed full and accurate accounts of the dispute. Then McCormick made a tentative stab: "That is where the rugs come from...
...manager-elect, Rudolf Bing, which most of Rose's 350 U.S. papers printed. In it, after noting that Bing had hired Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who "entertained ... the Nazis," Rose sarcastically nominated Dr. Hjalmar Schacht as Met budget director and Frau Use Koch of Buchenwald as wardrobe mistress. The Trib's lawyers thought the Rose column smelled of libel, and the editors killed it. Miffed, Billy notified the Trib that he would not renew his contract next May. The Trib dropped him on the spot. But Billy had the last word: the New York Daily News (circ...
Just before the test, somebody warned a Trib man not to stand too close to the window ; it might shatter under the mighty blast. Precisely at noon, a Tower official pulled the lanyard. The whistle momentarily disappeared in a cloud of steam, which coursed upward for five stories. But the sound that came forth was a musical, calliope-like peep, barely audible amid the winds swirling around the Tower. Down on the streets, hardly a Chicagoan turned his head. Reported the undaunted Tribune next day : "A thunderous bellow was emitted from [the whistle's] metal throat...
Completely satisfied, WGN announced that the next blast of the whistle will mean the actual approach of atomic raiders - and Trib staffers will scuttle to the Trib's atomic-bomb shelters...
...after, she married Photographer Russell Ogg and they settled down to live in a Manhattan slum on his $15-a-week salary. Norma quickly turned the hardship into $1,100 from the Reader's Digest for a sprightly piece on We Live in the Slums. She joined the Trib as a feature writer in 1944. But not till two years ago did she get her first chance on a breaking news story when the Trib sent her to Havana to cover the Satira yacht-murder of Playboy John Lester Mee (TIME, May 5,1947). She scooped a horde...