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Died. Oliver K. Bovard, 73, austere, softspoken, longtime managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and power behind his paper's famed crusades against political and industrial corruption (Teapot Dome, Tom Pendergast, Union Electric) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Louis. He paid his men well, fired them only for indifference or disloyalty, ruled his roost with icy justice. One of Bovard s ex-copyreaders, fired for sneaking P-D copy to a public utility before publication, once asked for his job back, pleading that he "had to live." Asked Bovard...
...extremely cold shoulder from all the major Allies. The Tangier conference door was slammed in his face (TIME, Sept. 3). Plagued by drought and lack of food (Spain needs nearly 2,000,000 tons of imported wheat), the Spanish people grow constantly more dispirited. As a U.P. dispatch from San Sebastian in the Basque country delicately put it: "Demonstrations of affection for Spain's leader have been comparatively limited in number and degree of warmth...
Gone were the old days when Press Secretary Steve Early would fetch a presidential answer to a routine question (including "what did the President eat for breakfast?"). In Steve Early's chair now was serious, sober, 59-year-old Charles Griffith Ross of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, who does not like to answer personal questions about his boss...
Said a bristling British spokesman: "We certainly did not apply any pressure on the King. . . . Our views about the Groza Government have been well known to the Russians since they removed the Radescu Government early this year and installed the present regime." Next, United Press, in a Bucharest dispatch filed abroad to avoid Rumanian censorship, reported that strong-arm Andrei Vishinsky, ace Russian trouble shooter, had given King Michael just two hours to dismiss Radescu, install Groza...
...Louis, whose big three daily newspapers are closed by a strike, got itself a new paper last week. Its publishers (the Newspaper Guildsmen and three backshop unions of the strike-bound Post-Dispatch, the Star-Times and Globe-Democrat) hoped it would not live long. So did St. Louis readers, who found the skimpy four pages of its first issue an inadequate substitute. To start their St. Louis Daily News, Guildsmen wangled a first allotment of 16¼ tons of newsprint from WPB (which will allow any new daily paper that much), persuaded a south St. Louis neighborhood publisher...