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...McCormick, tweedy, confident, 50-year-old president of McC & Co., read their reports in the Olde English decor of the firm's head office, and was happy. Reasons : 1) after five years of war, spice shipments were on the move again; 2) the firm's sales of Bee Brand products this year were expected to top $12 million, do better still in '47; 3) the Chicago expansion-and indeed all the company's post-1932 successes-could be laid directly at the door of his own Multiple Management policies...
...people who read his rambling columns, "Bee" Behymer is as durable a Midwest institution as his paper, which is only 67. He has written for the Post-Dispatch since 1888, when the late City Editor Charles E. Chapin (who ended up at Sing Sing for killing his wife) took him on as/correspondent at Belleville...
...stormy night Bee was assigned to cover a bicycle race, and his packet of "Belleville Notes" missed the train to St. Louis. Chapin gave his cub correspondent a screaming tongue-lashing over the telephone. The quaking Behymer hired a rig, drove 14 miles to put the column of trivia on Chapin's desk. He got no thanks, and Chapin growled when he okayed Bee's expense account for $3 for the horse & rig, but his job was saved. He still thinks Chapin was a great man, "but very unscrupulous. He made a newspaperman out of me by keeping...
...love for cornfield journalism, gruesome and otherwise, kept mild Bee Behymer from ever graduating from the Post-Dispatch, while generations of St. Louis newspapermen he knew (Westbrook Pegler, Theodore Dreiser, Silas Bent, Herbert Bayard Swope, et al.) came & went. A little (125 Ibs.) man with unruly grey hair, a too-big nose and a small mustache, he is proud that he never had to take a drink or buy one to get a story. As a solid senior citizen of Lebanon, Ill., he sings a raspy bass in the Methodist choir, is a trustee of small McKendree College, writes editorials...
Every spring Bee pores over country weeklies for ideas, peers at a big office map through his steel-rimmed bifocals, and plots out a trip. Of his style of writing, which is more like country weekly stuff than P-D prose, he said last week: "I throw conventionalism and standardization to the winds and write by ear. I let my wife read it, if possible, and we always compromise and make the changes she suggests...