Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Ballpark Bricks Placed on Chicago's Tribune Tower-- Part 3: Get It However You Must

Some reporters were taken aback by the directive, but best that you not cross the boss, Robert McCormick.  A Paris correspondent in France went to Rouen to get a piece of the Gothic Cathedral which served as a model for the Tribune Tower.only to find the local paper had gotten word and banner headline said that he was there to steal it.  Tribune records show he obtained it legally.

But, there was plenty cloak-and-dagger items.  A Finnish diplomat smuggled Kremlin bricks out of Moscow

In 1946, Tribune reporters started gathering fragments from every state.  A Tribune staffer asked a Nebraska newspaper editor to have someone knock a piece off famed pioneer Chimney Rock as "large as your two fists."

Robert McCormick died 60 years ago, but the collection continues to grow, but considerably slower.

A Piece of My House?  --Cooter

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