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...Lutheran theologian, he went to Harvard, where he studied writing under Critic Bernard DeVoto ("Cut out those adjectives"), became president of the Crimson, got a degree in History and Literature. Fuerbringer went back home to a reporter's job on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a practical journalism school which carried in its masthead Joseph Pulitzer's injunction: "Never be satisfied with merely printing news." There he heard the exhortations of a demanding city editor on how to get a story ("Don't come back until you've got it") and the need for accuracy ("When...
Fuerbringer dug out and wrote the first comprehensive story of St. Louis gambling bosses, an early-day Kefauver-type investigation, one of the many that have appeared over the years in the Post-Dispatch. He covered the state legislature and city political campaigns, spent many of his afternoons digging up stories at St. Louis' famed zoo, started an art column and wrote book reviews. After an eight-month trip through Europe, he turned out a series on pre-Munich Germany. Meanwhile, he also wrote features for The Saturday Evening Post...
...amendment would convert the Senate into an operations section of the General Staff," Lodge protested, "something for which the Senate is not fitted either by training or experience or by its ability to act with secrecy and dispatch...
When Benjamin Harrison Reese became managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 13 years ago, he had to compete with a legend, as well as with the lively afternoon opposition (the Star-Times). The legend was the enormous reputation of his predecessor, lofty, autocratic Oliver Kirby ("O.K.") Bovard, one of the great managing editors of his time. What made matters worse was that Bovard, before he stalked out of the P-D (at the end of a long disagreement with Publisher Joseph Pulitzer), had made it clear that he thought City Editor Ben Reese something less than a worthy...
...Lash. As P-D city editor for 25 years, big (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Ben Reese had built up a crack staff by painstaking direction and a relentless, daily wielding of the lash on staffers who failed to give him what he wanted ("Tell him the Post-Dispatch wants to know, and don't come back without the story"). He had developed many a bannerline expose through his dogged, relentless pursuit of the smallest story clue, spent as much as $50,000 to break a hot story. In 1936, for example, by sending a dozen reporters...