As science-and-medicine reporter for Hearst's Chicago Herald-American (circ. 522,005), Hugh S. Stewart, 59, was a cautious, low-keyed newsman. In his seven years on a staff that works for the gaudy effect, he seldom wrote a sensational story. But last August he hustled in with a tip that stirred up the city room. Stewart said he had located a woman who was going to give birth to sextuplets later in the month or early in September. Two other papers were about ready to break the story. "I can't even reveal my sources to you," he told the Herald's city desk, "so I...
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