The Press: Appointments to Chicago

Marshall Field's Chicago morning-paper-in-progress (TIME, Sept. 22) last week made important additions to its general staff for the Big Push—due to begin in mid-November—against Colonel Robert McCormick's Chicago Tribune, America First's Greatest Newspaper. The staff announced this week by Publisher Silliman Evans:

Assistant to the publisher: Frank W. Taylor, big, 54-year-old ex-managing editor of the St. Louis Star-Times. Ranking high among top-flight U.S. editors, Frank Taylor brings to Marshall Field's paper his invaluable 27-year experience in fighting a tough, richer rival. (When he quit the Star-Times four months ago, the powerful St. Louis...

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