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...Tribune city room all but forgot its deadlines. When tall, black-moustached Reporter Stanley Johnston, author of the June 7 story, walked in, the staff rose and cheered. It cheered again at the entrance of balding little Managing Editor James Loy ("Pat") Maloney. Then Colonel Robert R. McCormick appeared at the door, statement in hand. As one man, the whole room roared. The colonel blinked and said: "There never has been a bunch like the Tribune bunch. As I have told you before, every member of the Tribune is a member of my family...
...Jaffe, R. '44, Adams B-16 TRO 9387 Jay, R. R. '46, Kirkland A-31 ELI 0801 Jeffries, D. W. '45, Lowell B-11-12 KIR 7710 Johnson, A. M. '44, Lowell E-51 KIR 1641 Johnson, F. D. '46, Dunster J-22 TRO 4998 Johnston, C. '45, Leverett B-34 ELI 2314 Jones, R. K. '46, Kirkland B-12 TRO 1199 Joy, R. A. '43, Winthrop C-51 ELI 2209 Judell, R. L. 1G., Adams I-12 ELI 2489 K Kane, J. M. '43, Dunster G-42 KIR 3747 Kaufmann, M. S. '43, Dunster G-61 ELI 9917 Kaye...
According to the Tribune, Johnston made up his list of the Jap fleet and its disposition out of "his own expert knowledge," from "discussions with naval men of all countries" and by studying Jane's Fighting Ships. Editor Maloney said the story's assertion that the information was known by Naval Intelligence was just an assumption.* Johnston said that he guessed that the Navy had spotted the approaching ships by plane and submarine reconnaissance...
...Every one of them?" he was asked. Said Johnston: "I see no reason...
...Tribune pointed out last week, Stanley Johnston had been recommended for a citation for bravery in the Battle of the Coral Sea, and Managing Editor Maloney had been a U.S. flyer in World War I, serving in Eddie Rickenbacker's squadron in France. At worst it looked as if they had committed a blunder in failing to take into account what such a story might reveal...