"You are getting rattled, Colonel McCormick."
The Chicago Sun led its editorial page with this laconic editorial one day last week. It was a soft answer to the dirtiest punch the Tribune's incredible Bertie McCormick had yet thrown in his bitter feud with the Sim's fairdealing Marshall Field. The Tribune, gloating over Ralph Ingersoll's "shamed" enlistment in the Army (TIME, Aug. 3), had blathered:
"The publicity given to Ingersoll as a draft dodger has detracted attention from Marshall Field as a slacker. Field is of age to volunteer. . . . The term...
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