Word: bovard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through Johns that Oliver K. Bovard, famed ex-managing editor of the P-D was taken on the paper. As a reporter for the St. Louis Star, Bovard unearthed all the facts in a bribery case that his paper figured was too hot to handle. He took his story to the PD, was hired, and Johns, then an editorial writer, promptly had it printed. Bovard stayed on to become nationally celebrated for his successful six-year struggle to crack the Teapot Dome scandal...
...Young Joseph resembles his father in more ways than one, and particularly wants to resemble Old Joseph as a crusading publisher. For his chief editorial writer he has ruddy, Irish Ralph Coghlan, who would like to be known as a hard-hitting successor to Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O.K.") Bovard, who retired two years...
...DAPHNE BOVARD...
...fisted, crusading record has the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Back in 1883, four years after the late, great Joseph Pulitzer created it, Managing Editor John A. Cockerill shot and killed a man who called the Post-Dispatch a gang of blackmailers. Under famed Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O. K.") Bovard, who retired two years ago, the Post-Dispatch tore into municipal corruption whenever it could be found, in 1937 won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing election frauds. Last week the Post-Dispatch was again in the fray...
...Bovard's successor is a 6 ft. 4 in., 235-Ib. Missourian named Benjamin Harrison Reese. Editor Reese has just one aim in life: to see that the Post-Dispatch lives up to its reputation his predecessors gave it. In that ambition he is backed by two fighting Irish henchmen: ruddy Editorial Editor Ralph Coghlan, sandy-haired Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick...