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...Guildsman and no crusader, leathery Bert Andrews, 46, had stubbornly stuck to his reporter's last through seven years as the Trib's top capital hand. A Washington assignment offers subtle temptations: if a reporter is not careful he may turn into a pundit, or a cocktail-swigging socialite, or become a power behind some politician's throne. Such lures have left Andrews cold. In Albany and way points (Sacramento, Chicago, the Paris Herald, and Manhattan), he learned to keep his nose for news clean, and his news sources at arm's length...
...Washington, when he found that the Trib's White House man never asked President Roosevelt a question unless the head office prompted it, Andrews transferred the man. Other staffers got the idea: the new boss liked people with plenty of natural curiosity. A faithful front-row attendant at presidential press conferences, Andrews has angered Harry Truman, as he did F.D.R., with his probing inquiries, but won respect and friendship...
Andrews is just as good at long-range prodding. Last month he pried out Communist William Z. Foster's views on U.S.-Russian relations by a series of mailed questions. But many Trib readers thought that Foster's long-winded, evasive answers weren't worth the space (16 columns...
Hearst First. When the Sun set, its circulation was 305,000, a 45,000 drop since September, when it shrank to a tabloid. The Times has 468,000. Field hopes the Sun & Times will keep a total of 650,000 a day, second only to the Trib's 1,000,000. "From now on," a Field executive chirped hopefully, "we'll concentrate on Hearst,* and get at McCormick sideways. " His optimism was not contagious. Marshall Field, his pleasant smile and soft voice gone for once, snapped: "I have nothing to say-on or off the record...
Only Yale, from which Bertie McCormick had graduated in 1903, was still undefiled. Said the old school Trib: "The most striking trait of [Yale] university is 'democracy' ... a visitor may meet with rumors of propaganda . . . being preached in the classroom, but such practice would be difficult to prove...