Word: bovard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jefferson, ranged from Communist Robert Minor to elegant, man-about-Manhattan Herbert Bayard Swope. They rolled into St. Louis-on Pulitzer's money and no encouragement from the ODT-from all parts of the U.S. The P-D's No. 1 alumnus, aloof, astute Oliver Kirby ("O.K.") Bovard, 72, managing editor for 28 of the P-D's greatest years, was ill and sent regrets...
...admirers usually credit its special virtues to Bovard, or to the present trio of top men: cocky, trigger-tempered Ralph Coghlan, editorial-page chief; moose-tall, desk-pounding Managing Editor Benjamin Harrison Reese; Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick. They were, indeed, all on the team that carried through the P-D's most successful crusades: the Teapot Dome exposure, the impeachment of Federal Judge English, the Union Electric Co. slush-fund scandal, the 1936 registration frauds. But Pulitzer has backed them, ignoring the protests of his country-club friends...
...smoker also disclosed the presence in our midst of another talented double-talker in the person of Sidney Resnik, who served beautifully as a stooge for the fog-horn-voiced Benjamin. The dialogue between A.A. (Rita) Addington and O.K. (Olivia) Bovard brought down the house and Lt. (jg) T.W. (Bide Crab) Bradley with it. That last remark involving the distribution of naval responsibility and its various ramifications was unanimously elected as the climax crack of the evening...
...business manager is Gordon Marks, and he will be assisted by O. K. Bovard, J. P. Schaeffer, and F. H. Corrigan...
University of Southern California. Over the stone archway entrance to Bovard Administration Building flaps a red-white-&-blue service flag with 1,300 stars to denote U.S.C.'s contribution to the fighting forces. Sorority girls who turned up their noses at privates a year ago will go necking with them now. Just after Pearl Harbor the prevailing attitude was "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we drill"; in the first blackout last winter, U.S.C. fraternity men made merry chasing around sorority houses. Now they take blackouts seriously...