High up in Chicago's Tribune Tower, the door to Colonel Robert R. McCormick's sanctum flew open. Out strode the colonel's niece, 30-year-old Ruth McCormick Miller, editor of his Washington Times-Herald. Mad as a wet hen, she took the elevator to the lobby, hustled off to her suite in the Ambassador East Hotel. There Newshen "Bazy" confirmed a fast-spreading rumor: she had just had a "heated showdownnot loud but emphatic"with Bertie McCormick. Furthermore, she was all washed up as boss of the Times-Herald.
Only 19 months before, the colonel had proudly installed Bazy in her...
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