Just after pressing the buttons that started his new Chicago Sun, Marshall Field III had his picture taken with four of his chief aides: George De Witt, John Dienhart, Rex Smith and Publisher Silliman Evans. The group picture was hung in the Sun's cramped little wire room. De Witt, Dienhart and Smith fell by the wayside in the first eight months; some office commentator marked an X over each departed face. Sixteen months ago somebody put a large question mark over the heavy-jowled likeness of highly paid publisher "Ivans. He frequently joked about...
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