Word: bovard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little item on the Sarah Lawrence application seems glaringly out of place, in the light of avowed policy. It requires the names, occupation, and education of a girl's grandparents. Admissions director, Marie Bovard explains this with the remark: "If a girl's grandparents have had no education, then all the more power to her." But this and the statement that a good looking girl has a better chance for admission are the condemnable parts of Sarah Lawrence's policy...
When Benjamin Harrison Reese became managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 13 years ago, he had to compete with a legend, as well as with the lively afternoon opposition (the Star-Times). The legend was the enormous reputation of his predecessor, lofty, autocratic Oliver Kirby ("O.K.") Bovard, one of the great managing editors of his time. What made matters worse was that Bovard, before he stalked out of the P-D (at the end of a long disagreement with Publisher Joseph Pulitzer), had made it clear that he thought City Editor Ben Reese something less than a worthy...
...admitted.) But Reese was a bedrock newsman, who had started out at $8 a week on the Chief in home-town Hobart, Mo., worked on a handful of other papers before he joined the P-D in 1913. He was smart enough to capitalize on talents far different from Bovard...
...much as $50,000 to break a hot story. In 1936, for example, by sending a dozen reporters on a house-to-house canvass, he exposed a fraud in St. Louis voting registration lists, won the P-D its first Pulitzer Prize for public service. "And," he noted proudly, "Bovard didn't know a damn thing about it before I started...
...Reese, 62, had a more personal piece of news for the staff: he was retiring in June. His successor: Raymond L. Crowley (rhymes with holy), 55, P-D staffer for 29 years, city editor for 13, whom Reese had been quietly grooming for the past four years. Like Bovard, hard-boiled Ben Reese would leave his successor a legend to compete with...