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...wearily back & forth in front of the Gothic tower of the Tribune. Red and black letters on their white canvas placards told the now familiar story: "On Strike Against the Chicago Tribune." But after 17 months, the printers seemed as far as ever from winning the strike against the Trib and Chicago's four other major dailies...
...Said the Trib, in its introductory note: "It is damning because it is authentic; and it is authentic because its author is a convinced Soviet sympathizer . . . Every present protestation by Miss Strong of her continued devotion to the Kremlin only underlines . . . the fact that friends and enemies alike are only insects under the heel of the vast, impersonal and inhuman despotism which she served...
...weeks. One reason, said S.R.L., is that the lists are based "on figures obtained from relatively few stores in relatively few cities . . . without reference to the most elementary rules of statistical sampling." The Herald Tribune, said S.R.L., gets its reports from 67 stores in 50 cities (actually, says the Trib, 60 to 80 stores report each week), but Macy's, one of the biggest U.S. book retailers, is not even represented. (Neither are the book clubs.) The Times listed reports from "leading booksellers" in 22 cities (coincidentally, this week it boosted the reporting cities...
...what they call themselves," a reader in Bethel, Conn, wrote last week to the New York Herald Tribune. "What is a liberal? A man who wants . . . higher taxes and more schools or lower taxes and more business, more government or less government? . . . I'm confused." The Trib, which cherishes its liberalism as much as its Republicanism, passed the question to its readers. Over a hundred definitions poured in, and a few shed a little light on one of the most overworked words in the modern vocabulary. Some serious and not so serious samples...
Henning had seen more of Washington politics than any other correspondent, and Bertie McCormick had no intention of letting such a man go. Reporter Henning will continue to draw his regular pay, $35,000 a year, and to write and broadcast weekly over the Trib's WGN on Washington affairs as a "correspondent emeritus...