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...Post-Dispatch...
...break the surprising news he had heard only the afternoon before. Then he sat down and wrote the news for Page One, took the story to the composing room himself. Composing Room Superintendent Earl Barker read it and gasped: the Star-Times had been sold to the rival Post-Dispatch (circ. 290,052), would publish no more after that afternoon's press...
...Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer had bought the Star-Times's name, linotypes, presses, newsprint and circulation (179,803) to gain a monopoly in the afternoon field, leave St. Louis with only one other daily newspaper, the thriving morning Globe-Democrat (circ. 282,611). Reported price: between $3,500,000 and $8,000,000. The downtown five-story Star-Times building was not included in the deal; neither was the paper's ABC radio outlet, KXOK, or its FM affiliate. Star-Times Publisher Elzey Roberts had sold out because "material costs have risen faster than the increased revenues...
...position had not been precarious. It had made money since 1932, despite rising costs, had carved out its own niche in St. Louis. Its small but spring-legged editorial staff took an underdog's delight in occasionally beating the P-D on stories. Like the Post-Dispatch, it generally followed a Fair Deal line, and like the Post-Dispatch, it had its unpredictable lapses, e.g., both supported Dewey...
...Capital of the only Latin American nation to dispatch fighting help for U.N. forces in Korea...