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...Further research would have shown the truckers exactly what former Governor Smith did deny. He denied telling the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Missouri legislators had received money from truck lobbyists. But he did tell a legislative investigating committee that he understood from others that money had changed hands to defeat a bill to increase truck license fees...
...fast-breaking news, correspondents often telephoned London at the same time that they cabled their censored dispatches. If they strayed a single word from the censored text, the telephone line always went abruptly dead. To warn deskmen in A.P.'s London bureau, Gilmore sometimes wrote at the end of a dispatch, "Please give this a careful reading; I had to write it in a hurry," which they knew meant "The censor's been hacking at this one; watch it closely...
...Moscow to sell a set of murals. But when he refused to revise the mural to Red specifications, i.e., make Stalin a more prominent figure, the Reds refused to pay for it, and Burck returned to the U.S. He worked for a year at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch under Dan Fitzpatrick (TIME, June 22) before joining the Chicago Times. Burck stoutly denied he was ever a Communist in spirit, said that he signed the party card only as a matter of "expediency," and that he never attended closed party meetings. As to why he never became a citizen after...
...Times Publisher Marshall Field Jr. backed up his cartoonist, and so did the Post-Dispatch in an editorial: "The idea that Jacob Burck should be banished behind the Iron Curtain is nothing less than preposterous . . . There is nothing 'subversive' whatever about his metropolitan daily newspaper cartooning, which now dates back more than 16 years. Assume that he realized his error and . . . sincerely changed his affiliation . . . Should the U.S. then not want to reclaim him as it has . . . others who saw their mistake...
...Missouri, a politician once told a staffer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I could answer your editorials, but what can you 'do with that guy who draws cartoons?'' That guy is lean (5 ft. 11½ in., 126 Ibs.) trimly tailored Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, 62, whose drawings in broad charcoal-black strokes have probably been more widely reprinted in newspapers and magazines than any other editorial cartoonist in the U.S. This week, with explanatory notes by "Fitz," the best of his cartoon commentary on the last three decades of U.S. history was published for the first...