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Joseph A. Brandt, a rawboned, red-haired Indianan, is a character straight out of The Front Page. His family wanted him to be a preacher, but by the time he had worked his way through the University of Oklahoma and got three degrees from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he had decided to be a newspaperman. Returning to Oklahoma, he shortly became city editor of the Tulsa Tribune. Then the fur began...
When a big story broke, City Editor Brandt leaped from desk top to desk top, shouting assignments. One day a blonde named Sallye Little walked into his office. Brandt liked her spirit, hired her as a reporter. Soon they began to argue at the top of their voices, throw inkpots and pastepots at each other. Sallye quit, went to work for the opposition Tulsa World. Thereupon Brandt married...
...Joseph Brandt quit the Tribune and took a new job as head of the University of Oklahoma Press. He ran the Press like a city room. Instead of waiting for professors to bring him their ponderous research, he went hunting for interesting authors. Once he chased an author across the continent in a plane to get him to write a book. The book. Wah'Kon-Tah, by John Joseph Mathews, was the first from any university press to be chosen a Book-of-the-Month. After he had turned out several best-sellers at Oklahoma, the Princeton University Press...
James S. Bishop '42, Louisville, Ky.; Henry Brandt '43, New York, N.Y.; Le Baron R. Briggs 3d. '41, Plymouth, Mass.; Jack E. Bronston '42, Plainfield, N.J.; Earle J. Carleton Jr. '41, Newtonville, Mass...
Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Pete Brandt: "It's a pretty good...