Dog & Man

For the new mood of Marshall Field's Chicago Sun, which had forsworn preachy crusades for homely human interest news, the story was a Page One natural. It was about a man and a dog. What made it even better, the man was the Sun's archrival, Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick. Colonel McCormick had taken his German shepherd, Lotta, to a suburban kennel to have a thorn removed from her left front paw, and Lotta had run away.

For a night and a day, the Sun reported, 26 cops busily beat the bushes of the North Shore. None won McCormick's $100 reward. Then Trib Reporter Chester Nichols was assigned to the hunt. After 22 sleepless hours he tracked Lotta down. When admiring cops asked him how he'd done it, Newshawk Nichols replied: "Simple. Until the Tribune hired me four years ago I was the dog-catcher at Evanston." The Sun's headline: SCOOP! MCCORMICK DOG OUTSMARTED BY TRIBUNE MAN.

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