Word: bovard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Publisher Pulitzer, the executive staff of the Post-Dispatch keeps the paper running smoothly when he is, as he was last week, away for the summer at Bar Harbor. Managing Editor Oliver ("Jack") Bovard, lean, austere, hard to know, has held his job for 22 years. Meek, small, sandy-haired Cartoonist Fitzpatrick works in a cubbyhole off the city room. His drawings, notable for the dramatic effect obtained with an economy of line, are subject to editorial approval but are seldom changed. Best known among the 126 Post-Dispatch reporters and newsmen who take their orders from Managing Editor...
Died. Dr. George Finley Bovard, 76, president emeritus of the University of Southern California; of kidney trouble; in Los Angeles. A member of the University's first class (1884) under the presidency of his brother. Dr. Marion McKinley Bovard. he spent 20 years in the Methodist Episcopal ministry, was elected president of the University of Southern California in 1903, retired...
...later a University trustee. In February 1929 "Ned" Doheny, 36, was shot by his mad secretary, Robert Plunkett, who then killed himself. A great Doheny friend was Warren Bradley Bo vard, 47, comptroller and vice president of U. S. C., son of its President Emeritus. In December 1930, Comptroller Bovard killed himself, left a note: "Goodbye, Blanie [his wife], I am going to look...
Died. Warren Bradley Bovard, 45, comptroller and vice president of the University of Southern California, son of George Finley Bovard, president emeritus of the University; by his own hand; in Los Angeles. He left a note: "Goodbye. Blanie [his wife], I am going to look for Ned" [his great friend, Edward Laurence Doheny, Jr., shot last year by an insane secretary...