Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, for good measure, he attacked half a dozen New York City newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "communistically inclined newspapers" of Chicago, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Record "which gathered their mud buckets and tried to bespatter [my] name...
...invitation, from the Associated American Artists, was of the stuffy variety. New Yorkers were invited to view the recent artistic works of "D.R. Fitzpatrick of St. Louis, Missouri." The Gallery did not let on that the artist was more widely known as Fitz of the Post-Dispatch, probably the most widely reprinted political cartoonist in the U.S. It was the second time in five years that the A.A.A. had honored Fitz with a show...
...Institute by sweeping floors mornings, working in a cafeteria for his lunch, ushering in a theater at night. On the side, he sold so many cartoons (for $1 apiece) to the Chicago Daily News that he soon had a regular job. In 1913, he went to the Post-Dispatch, has been there ever since...
...people who read his rambling columns, "Bee" Behymer is as durable a Midwest institution as his paper, which is only 67. He has written for the Post-Dispatch since 1888, when the late City Editor Charles E. Chapin (who ended up at Sing Sing for killing his wife) took him on as/correspondent at Belleville...
...love for cornfield journalism, gruesome and otherwise, kept mild Bee Behymer from ever graduating from the Post-Dispatch, while generations of St. Louis newspapermen he knew (Westbrook Pegler, Theodore Dreiser, Silas Bent, Herbert Bayard Swope, et al.) came & went. A little (125 Ibs.) man with unruly grey hair, a too-big nose and a small mustache, he is proud that he never had to take a drink or buy one to get a story. As a solid senior citizen of Lebanon, Ill., he sings a raspy bass in the Methodist choir, is a trustee of small McKendree College, writes editorials...