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...Join. One cause of competition is publishers. Except for the fact that both went to Harvard, they have virtually nothing in common. The Post-Dispatch's Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 54, grandson of the founder, is urbane, aristocratic, international-minded and remote. Globe Publisher Richard H. Amberg, 55, who was brought in from Syracuse by Sam Newhouse when he bought the paper in 1955, is hard driving, domineering, locally oriented and a joiner. He is reputed, in fact, to have joined more civic organizations than any other publisher in the U.S., and he is constantly supporting local causes...
...Amberg '64, chairman of the Quincy social committee, who suggested the innovation, admitted that a number of students were opposed to music at mealtime, but said, "I think most of them are for it." Amberg added that no decision to continue the music would be made until Monday, when the House committee meets. At least one more trial session, probably Friday or Saturday, will be necessary, Amberg indicated...
...gimmicky hyperbole, the stunt was effective proof that news which rates newspaper space includes plenty that never gets on the air. Mailed out to advertisers, clergymen, doctors, lawyers, barbers and beauticians with a letter from Publisher Richard Amberg, the colored copy of the Globe left readers to decide how well informed they could hope to be by relying on radio and television...
Survival of the Fittest. Despite the Globe's circulation inroads and the P-D's belated concern, the Globe has a long row to hoe before it catches up with the Post-Dispatch as a newspaper. Amberg has brought many improvements to the Globe-Democrat; yet the P-D remains more thoughtfully written and edited, has much superior Washington and foreign coverage. Says one Post-Dispatchman: 'We're harder to read, we're long as hell, and sometimes we're not as bright as we should be. But a serious reader has to see the Post-Dispatch to know what...
...editorial page that the Amberg stamp was most heavily seen: the Globe-Democrat now stands foursquare behind conservatives ranging from General Douglas MacArthur to Guy Lombardo. And as a Boy Scoutmaster, Amberg can always find room for a moving editorial about, for example, small boys killed by lightning while selling Boy Scout circus tickets ("Certainly there must be an es- pecial place reserved in Heaven for faithful little boys . . ."). As an old St. Louis newsman puts it: "Amberg is a bore, but he's a driving bore...