Word: bovard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initial shock of the scandal had a devastating effect on the agency's top-level personnel. By the end of the first week, the scoreboard read: Commissioner Guy T. Hollyday, resigned under force; Assistant Commissioner Clyde L. Powell, resignation "withheld" pending further investigation; General Counsel Burton C. Bovard, placed "on leave"; and Deputy Commissioner Walter L. Greene, request for retirement granted...
...Bovard. If Founder Pulitzer created the paper's vigorous spirit, it was the paper's longtime (1908-38) Managing Editor O. K. (for Oliver Kirby) Bovard who translated the spirit into a day-to-day newspaper. A whip-cracking taskmaster, he was known in the trade as a "one-man school of journalism" or the "greatest managing editor of all time." On the day he became city editor, Bovard was congratulated by one of his friends on the staff who made the mistake of addressing Bovard by his nickname, "Jack." Answered the new city editor frostily: "From...
...Bovard always thought of the P-D first, expected his reporters to do the same. Once, a staffer covering a woman's club meeting telephoned the office and told the managing editor that the platform had collapsed, but that Mrs. Bovard, who was at the meeting, was unhurt. "Never mind that," snapped Bovard. "Have you got the story for the Post-Dispatch?" On the day he resigned, Bovard told Reporter Sam Shelton, who is now assistant to the publisher: "There are only two things I regret upon my retirement . . . One of them is the unsolved Neu murder case...
...Heart Is a Home. Bovard's style of journalism was carried on with the same driving, unsentimental tenacity by burly, hard-boiled Managing Editor Ben Reese, who retired in 1951, and now by a milder-mannered crusader, Raymond L. Crowley, 58, a staffer for 31 years and, like both Reese and Bovard, a longtime city editor. Over the P-D's 1,650-man staff is the paper's, unchallenged boss, Joseph Pulitzer II, 68, who, like his late father, has long suffered from failing eyesight; he keeps a battery of secretaries reading the paper...
...tradition set by Bovard, P-D staffers, whose salaries are as high as any newspaper in the U.S., keep aloof from outside organizations, rarely accept invitations to pressagents' parties, return gifts that are sent to them, pay their way wherever they go. The PD, which in 1951 bought the ailing Star-Times (circ. 179,803) and now is the only evening paper in St. Louis, seldom loses a staffer to any other newspaper. When the flow of news is heavy the news department rules, decides how much space it will need, leaves the rest...