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These stories Jock Bellairs denies with a twinkle in his eye. His more sober exploits he will admit. He helped to convict Playboy Arthur Duestrow of killing his wife and child in one of St. Louis' most famed murder cases. He has covered 15 hangings, innumerable murders, never a lynching. Once he heard there were going to be two lynchings in one night, picked the wrong one, never got another chance. Paul Y. Anderson, Marcus Wolf, Herbert Bayard Swope and Theodore Dreiser were all St. Louis cubs when Jock Bellairs was a veteran. In A Book About Myself, Dreiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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