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player ready...When the McCormick Tribune Foundation honored the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) with a Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert, the reputed cynicism of journalists seemed to have melted away. “The concert was one of the most magnificent I’ve ever heard. And I’m a constant concertgoer in New York,” said Pamela Howard of the Scripps Howard Foundation and the International Center for Journalism. She was in town for IAPA’s weeklong assembly, during which Jack Fuller, president of Tribune Publishing Co., was installed as president. The private, early-evening CSO performance was for about 500 members of IAPA, a nonprofit group of editors and publishers dedicated to defending freedom of expression and of the press, and about 500 diplomats and leaders in the Chicago Latino community. Mexican folk band Sones de Mexico Ensemble Chicago played a pre-dinner reception at the Field Museum, just south of Tyrannosaurus rex Sue. Another Sue, Sue Mendives, of Agence France-Presse in Washington, D.C., spoke up: “Just the chance to meet some of the people in the industry all in one place, all concerned about a common goal. It’s really important. And I’ve never had dinner with a dinosaur before.”