Word: bovard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oliver K. Bovard...
...amazed staff nearly stopped work on the first edition. This notice that one of the most eminent, though least-known, careers in U. S. journalism had ended brought gloom to the office in which Oliver Kirby Bovard had spent 40 of his 66 years. For 28 of those years he had been managing editor, respected, feared, idolized by newspapermen whose bylines he made famous...
Faithful to a lifelong passion for self-effacement, O. K. Bovard kept to himself the nature of the differences with Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr. It had been assumed, however, that he liked neither the Post-Dispatch's support of Landon in 1936 nor the deepening conservatism of its editorial page, for which he occasionally wrote, but over which he never had control...
What made O. K. Bovard a great editor was his inflexible integrity. When Bovard ordered his most famous correspondent, Paul Y. Anderson,* to stop writing for The Nation four years ago, that hardhitting reporter took the order in good part, ridiculed the suggestion "that interests which I have treated none too tenderly" had finally caught up with his boss: "Don't believe a word of it. The Post-Dispatch cannot be 'reached'-I have seen that tried often enough to know." In a gregarious profession, Bovard's aloofness has become a legend. To keep his objectivity...
...significant national and international developments ; detailed exposés of economic, religious, racial repression, written by reporters who knew their stories would get into print. Most spectacular example of his editorial discretion was his iron refusal to accept the news of the Armistice that turned out to be false. Bovard was always calm, never lost control of his emotions. Once his star rewrite man got a big story just before the deadline, became so nervous that his fingers froze. Bovard walked over to his typewriter and remarked: "Take your time, old fellow, you've got two minutes...