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Died. Ogden Mills Reid, 64, editor-publisher of the Republican New York Herald Tribune, son of Tribune editor Whitelaw Reid, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A year after his father's death in 1912, he became editor of the Tribune, eleven years later purchased the New York Herald (founded 1835) and its Paris edition. With his wife as partner, he directed a paper that gave Manhattan its best local news, that offered foreign coverage surpassed only by the rival New York Times...
...also has no one who quite compares with Mrs. Reid. Eleventh child of an Appleton, Wis. family, she was all set to teach Latin when she left Manhattan's Barnard College, 42 years ago. Instead she took a job in New York as social secretary to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and proceeded to memorize the Social Register...
...London, where Whitelaw Reid was the U.S. Ambassador, the Reids' efficient secretary met the Reids' carefree son. Ogden and Helen Rogers were married in Appleton. Old Whitelaw Reid had taken over the Tribune after Horace Greeley's death in 1872; Ogden inherited it. Helen Reid stayed away from the Trib until her husband called for help in 1918, when $15 million of the family fortune had been pumped into...
...summer, on their farm at Ringwood, N.J., they built a 250-foot slide from the top of the orchard across the lawn, greased the slide with beeswax, and sailed down it "at great speed and with wild howls of glee." Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Presidential Candidate Samuel J. Tilden tried it once when "both of them [were] rather well along in years." Says Author Hewitt: "It is a wonder that they were not hurt...
...Well, its titular head is Ogden Reid, son of the late Whitelaw Reid and brother of Lady Jean Templeton Ward. . . . Of Whitelaw Reid, the Encyclopaedia Britannica says: '. . . In 1897 he was special ambassador of the United States on the occasion of Queen Victoria's jubilee; in 1902 he was special ambassador . . . at the coronation of King Edward VII; and in 1905 he became ambassador to Great Britain. . . . ' These salient details . . . may throw light on the question why today the New York Herald Tribune worships everything connected with Britain...