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...BOVARD...
...Dispatch which has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Last September, the Post-Dispatch jumped the political fence outright, joined the majority of the nation's dailies in favoring the election of Alf M. Landon. Solely responsible for the switch were sardonic Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O. K.") Bovard and Owner Joseph Pulitzer, a rich, respectable member of the rich, Right-thinking St. Louis Country Club...
Last week from the offices of the Post-Dispatch leaked the story of a unique post-Election gesture to Clark McAdams' memory. When the Presidential returns were all in, tall, grey-haired 0. K. Bovard rose from his desk on the open floor of the Post-Dispatch city room, slowly stalked into the editorial room where Mr. Mc-Adams used to write, chalked on its bulletin board a succinct message...
Under Publisher Pulitzer, the executive staff of the Post-Dispatch keeps the paper running smoothly when he is, as he was last week, away for the summer at Bar Harbor. Managing Editor Oliver ("Jack") Bovard, lean, austere, hard to know, has held his job for 22 years. Meek, small, sandy-haired Cartoonist Fitzpatrick works in a cubbyhole off the city room. His drawings, notable for the dramatic effect obtained with an economy of line, are subject to editorial approval but are seldom changed. Best known among the 126 Post-Dispatch reporters and newsmen who take their orders from Managing Editor...
Died. Dr. George Finley Bovard, 76, president emeritus of the University of Southern California; of kidney trouble; in Los Angeles. A member of the University's first class (1884) under the presidency of his brother. Dr. Marion McKinley Bovard. he spent 20 years in the Methodist Episcopal ministry, was elected president of the University of Southern California in 1903, retired...