In Colonel Robert R. McCormick's isolationist Chicago Tribune, the story rated a Page One banner headline. The Tribune's story: a $15 million-a-year subsidy from the Federal Government had been secretly arranged as a "reward" to a selected few U.S. newspapers, magazines, book publishers and film companies "which shouted the loudest for the 6 billion dollar Marshall Plan."
The Trib, which had shouted the loudest against the plan, accusingly ticked off a list of beneficiaries, including the New York Times and Herald Tribune, LIFE, TIME, Newsweek and Reader's Digest (all of which publish foreign editions) and the A.P., U.P. and I.N.S.
In Washington, Cissie...
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