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...editor, spent one happy period writing a Sunday feature page called the "True Life Section," where the P-D ran "scrupulously true stories about people and their lives." He still writes that kind of story, but the section was killed long ago by the. late Managing Editor 0. K. Bovard. Said O.K.B.: "Too many cornfield murders...
Exclaimed U.C.L.A.'s Dean of Applied Arts John Bovard: "Never before have education and industry worked so closely together...
Died. Oliver K. Bovard, 73, austere, softspoken, longtime managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and power behind his paper's famed crusades against political and industrial corruption (Teapot Dome, Tom Pendergast, Union Electric) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Louis. He paid his men well, fired them only for indifference or disloyalty, ruled his roost with icy justice. One of Bovard s ex-copyreaders, fired for sneaking P-D copy to a public utility before publication, once asked for his job back, pleading that he "had to live." Asked Bovard...
...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...