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...spared to render it worthy of the virtuous and refined, and a welcome visitant at the family fireside." Horace was editor; one Thomas McElrath, his partner, was business manager. Among those who worked on Greeley's Tribune at one time or another: Charles A. Dana (famed for the Sun), Whitelaw Reid (father of Ogden Reid, present Herald Tribune owner), John Hay (Lincoln's secretary and Ambassador to England), William Winter (famed critic...
...George V: "I was late to dinner at Buckingham Palace one night last week. Motoring home from a day's shooting in Berkshire (at the home of Lady Ward, onetime Miss Jean Whitelaw Reid of Manhattan), my chauffeur ran into a dense fog bank on the Great West Road. He tried to make a detour, but floundered hopelessly in the murk and I had to exercise patience while he groped along the grass edge of the road...
What influence the brilliant, energetic journalist exerted upon a brother six years younger may be guessed at from the fact that Thomas, the year after his graduation, got a job as reporter on Whitelaw Reid's New York Tribune. Since then, there has been, in addition to Thomas W. Lamont, internationally-known banker: Thomas W. Lamont, chief figure in the syndicate that owned The New York Evening Post; Thomas W. Lamont, a director in the Crowell Publishing Co. (Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine, Collier's) ; Thomas W. Lamont, part owner of an ephemeral three-cent Evcrywcek...
...Tribune, under Horace Greeley and Whitelaw Reid, has had in its 83 years of life a lasting effect upon the destinies of the nation...
...most important has also the greatest historical interest, for it has been occupied by James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Washington Irving, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell and, in more recent years, by Robert Todd Lincoln, Thomas F. Bayard, John Hay, Joseph H. Choate, Whitelaw Reid, Walter Hines Page, John W. Davis. Now a successor to these men must be chosen, as well as an Ambassador to Rome...