Chicago newspapers have a hardheaded, warm-hearted habit of giving free entertainment to Chicago's populace. Last fortnight the Chicago Tribune held its annual Chicagoland Music Festival (classic music; attendance, 85,000) in Soldier Field on the lakefront. This week it sponsored an All-Star football game on the Field. Calculating that it would be too expensive to dismantle a loudspeaker system on the Field between the two events, the Tribune agreed to let a rival, the tabloid Daily Times, use the equipment last week for a free entertainment of its own—a "Swing Jam Session" of...
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