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...special job for Colonel Bertie McCormick. Last winter, when the Colonel heard that an un-American blight was mottling the Ivy League, Griffin toured the Harvard, Yale and Princeton campuses. He proved (to the Tribune's satisfaction at least) that the Colonel had heard right. This fall the Trib got around to Dartmouth. When Griffin arrived, notebook in hand and hatchet up his sleeve, he got a cordial welcome. President John Sloan Dickey had reserved him a room at the Hanover Inn, and offered to show him everything-including a brand-new "Quality in Newspapers" exhibit in the library...
...exhibit pained Griffin. It gave examples of how news is distorted. Its examples were marked clippings from the Trib and from the Communist New York Daily Worker, contrasted with clips from the New York Times and Herald Tribune. Correspondent Griffin muttered darkly that "this will make the Colonel...
Last week the Tribune's four-installment series on Dartmouth came out with a blast against the "cult of America-Last internationalism" and President Dickey's famed "Great Issues" course. The "Quality in Newspapers" exhibit seemed to hurt the Trib most...
...first glance, patient readers of the Chicago Tribune thought Colonel Bertie McCormick was off on another simplified spelling jag. But the Page One story was simply a new way of reporting that old story, a new telephone directory. Reporter John T. McCutcheon Jr., son of the Trib's revered, retired cartoonist, had taken every word from names in the phone book...
...mission accomplished, Bigart was given a guerrilla guard for the 50-hour walk to government territory near Ioannina. There U.S. officers put him on the plane for Athens, where he cabled the Trib. It cabled back: "Thank God you're alive and please take all precautions, including a bodyguard." The Trib did not have to worry. The Greek government put a guard on Bigart-to keep him from slipping away again-until he left for Rome...