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After the family scuffle that kicked the New York Herald Tribune's President Whitelaw Reid upstairs in 1955, younger brother Ogden ("Brownie") Reid took over the ailing paper with the titles of president, publisher and editor. Brownie Reid, Yale '49, brought with him a $2,250,000 insurance company loan on the 20-story Herald Tribune Building in midtown Manhattan (41st Street) and an ambitious two-year plan for a "lighter, brighter" Trib...
...panel with Fairless: University of Virginia's President Colgate W. Darden Jr., onetime governor of Virginia; United Mine Workers' President John L. Lewis; New York Herald Tribune's Chairman Whitelaw Reid; Bank of America's Chairman Jesse W. Tapp; Procter & Gamble Co.'s Chairman Richard R. Deupree; American Machine & Foundry Co.'s Vice Chairman Walter Bedell Smith, Ike's wartime chief of staff...
...going on at our paper." The revolutionist: 29-year-old Ogden ("Brownie") Reid Jr., youngest publisher of a big daily in the U.S. and one of the most assured. Only a month ago, when his mother, Helen Rogers Reid, named him president of the paper and his elder brother Whitelaw ("Whitey"), 41, stepped upstairs to be chairman of the board (TIME, April 18), she insisted that her two sons would run the Trib as "a team." But the team plan vanished quickly. From the day he took over, Brownie Reid has set in motion the biggest overhaul the Trib...
...Herald Tribune, Helen Rogers Reid, 72, has long been the grande dame of U.S. journalism. Even before her husband Ogden Reid died in 1947, leaving her control of the paper, Helen Reid had a strong claim to the title. Once social secretary to Ogden Reid's mother, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, she began helping her husband on the Tribune in 1918 after $15 million of the family's money had been poured into the ailing daily...
...added to the Trib's prestige by such activities as the annual Herald Tribune Forum and a host of civic activities. Of all her plans, Helen Reid has been most determined about one. At the right time she wanted to step out and let her two sons, Whitelaw and Ogden, take over...