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...Missourian named Benjamin Harrison Reese. Editor Reese has just one aim in life: to see that the Post-Dispatch lives up to its reputation his predecessors gave it. In that ambition he is backed by two fighting Irish henchmen: ruddy Editorial Editor Ralph Coghlan, sandy-haired Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick...
...Ralph Coghlan last year wrote a rousing editorial that began: "St. Louis is confronted with a reeking, stinking scandal, and Circuit Judge Eugene L. Padberg is sitting right in the middle of it. ..." Fitzpatrick upheld his end with a cartoon series showing politicians and racketeers together in an ugly, symbolical St. Louis sidestreet called "Rat Alley...
Next morning, in another courtroom, Circuit Judge Ernest F. Oakley gave out a separate decision in a civil action, held that Big John Nick had received the money, ordered him to pay the union $10,000. Editor Coghlan's temper boiled over. Into the Post-Dispatch he hurled an angry editorial...
Never a P-D legman, ireful Editor Coghlan often wanders down from the eighth to the third (city room) floor to wrangle happily with reporters. He takes a boisterous but effective part in the periodic poker games of the "Twelfth Street Country Club," a group of P-D oldtimers. When he built his present house in the Ladue district he asked his friends if they thought he was getting too near a creek. They said he was. He built there anyway. The creek made him mad, too-came right into his cellar...
Members of the yearbook staff are: Harold M. Wolff (no relation to educator), William L. Archer, Elijah D. Adkins, Francis K. Buckley, John P. Coghlan, Frank W. Hustace, Jr., R. Stanley Lawton, Charles L. Fallonsbee...