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Twenty years ago a cocky youngster named Clement George McCullagh quit his job as assistant financial editor on the old Toronto Globe, to get into the million-dollar deals that he had been writing about on Toronto's Bay Street. His boss warned him against it, but McCullagh's mind was made up. "The next time I come in," he boasted, "I'll be buying this newspaper out from under...
Last week, George McCullagh, now 43 and cocky as ever, closed another newspaper deal. For $3,610,000, he bought the 72-year-old Toronto Evening Telegram.* That gave him control of two of the three big daily newspapers in Canada's second city, with a total circulation...
...Power. In the grimy Telegram offices on Melinda Street, there was no joy as the staff turned out an early afternoon edition headed McCULLAGH BUYS TELY (changed in a later edition to TELY REMAINS INDEPENDENT). Although McCullagh said that there would be no immediate wholesale firings, his ownership of both the Globe & Mail and the Telegram would cut the field for any ex-staffers to one paper, the Star...
...headquarters in the Chateau Laurier, and fewer still were at the Coliseum. The tall, well-tailored figure of Edward William Bickle, an investment broker and Drew's best friend, caught a bit of the limelight. Notably out of the limelight was another Drew crony and constant adviser, George McCullagh. One of the most powerful Canadian publishers (the Toronto Globe & Mail), McCullagh stayed away from Ottawa lest he scare off Drew supporters who still leaned a bit toward John Bracken's "ordinary man" position...
Paradoxically incipient "Hearst" McCullagh has recently had a behind-the-scenes quarrel with Premier Hepburn, but the Globe and Mail continues to support "Mitch" as vociferously as ever. It claims to have heard that desperate C. I. O. thugs from the U. S. are ready to kidnap the Premier's adopted children. Such charges are typical "Dominion journalism" (in Australia even wilder words are flung), and on the side George McCullagh has done something regarded as bravura even by the Canadian press by deciding to devote huge editorial space in the Globe and Mail to his past adventures with...