Private funeral services were held Monday for Col. Robert R. McCormick, 74, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune and for years one of the nation’s outstanding newspaper executives, who died Friday.Private funeral services were held Monday for Col. Robert R. McCormick, 74, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune and for years one of the nation’s outstanding newspaper executives, who died Friday.
The services were held at Cantigny Farm, his suburban Wheaton home where he died early Friday from a complication of diseases.
A firing squad of eight 5th Army soldiers and a bugler performed the last military honors for the colonel.
McCormick is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maryland Mathison McCormick, whom he married in 1944. His first wife, Amy Irwin Adams McCormick, who he married in 1915 died in 1939. He had no children. Also surviving are two nieces, Mrs. Ruth McCormick Tankesley and Mrs. Courtland D. Barnes Jr., daughters of his late brother, Medill McCormick.
Details of the future management of the Tribune will be announced after the funeral. McCormick several years ago began making preparations for the management of the Tribune after his death.
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Joseph Pulitzer, 70, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, died about midnight Wednesday from a ruptured blood vessel of the abdomen. He was 70 years old.
Death came unexpectedly. Only Tuesday night he had attended an annual Gridiron dinner of the St. Louis Advertising Club. He was a his desk throughout the day and leaving at his usual time.
He became ill at about 9:30 p.m. and was rushed to Barnes hospital where he died around midnight.
Pulitzer who headed the Post-Dispatch for 43 years, prided himself with being a working newspaperman. Under his leadership his afternoon newspaper became known as one of the great crusading newspapers of the nation.
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