People, Oct. 19, 1953

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

In Chicago, 250 newspapermen gathered in a hotel ballroom to sing "There is a tower in our town, in our town / And there the Colonel sits him down, sits him down . . ." The harmonizing was in honor of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, 73, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, who had been selected as the "Press Vet of 1953" by the Chicago Press Veterans' Association. Wearing a navy blue suit and black-ribboned slip-on pumps, the colonel sipped a Martini as old friends and...

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