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Staffers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch puzzled last week over a change in chairs. Illinois-born Irving Billiard, 52, a 30-year P-D veteran, stepped down as chief of the editorial page to become an editorial writer. His replacement: Editorial Writer Robert Lasch, 50, former chief of the Chicago Sun-Times editorial page, who was brought to the paper by Billiard seven years...
...refurbished to keep up with changing times. This "shocking attack," as London's Sunday Express called it, prompted the BBC to schedule, then cancel, an appearance by Muggeridge, who is a TV favorite; threw some doubt on the renewal of his TV contract, and also led the Sunday Dispatch to cancel a weekly Muggeridge series that it had just announced...
...Consort requires that the husband should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife," he wrote. But at a time when the Queen could still conduct diplomacy with other chiefs of state over the head of her government, he carried the key to Victoria's dispatch boxes, served as his wife's guide, mentor, confidant and private secretary, drafted her state orders and supervised all her affairs.. "He is King to all intents and purposes,'' muttered one disgruntled critic...
Died. Herbert Pulitzer, 61, third and only surviving son of the late great Editor Joseph Pulitzer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World), onetime publisher of the New York World (in its final illness, 1930-31); of uremic poisoning; in Paris...
...sent staffers to Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other Iron Curtain countries, protested that Secretary Dulles' built-in discrimination against enterprising smaller papers "is intolerable under the American press system." Said Virginius Dabney, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and editor of Virginia's Richmond Times-Dispatch: "I find no justification for a limit on the number of legitimate, accredited correspondents...