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...contract for a new brick headquarters. In Port Moresby's bureaucratic circles, the Post may not be as popular as it is among jungle tobacco hounds, but the saucy voice of New Guinea is never ignored. Confessed one Port Moresby official, in the kind of tribute that Glover, Eskell and Stephens set up shop in New Guinea to earn: "The Post keeps us on our toes...
Such tropical troubles only accent the purpose of the three men who head the paper: Managing Director Edward P. Glover, 35, a former Sydney Morning Herald subeditor; Sydney Businessman Stanley L. Eskell, 41, who put up most of the $74,000 starting capital; and A. E. Stephens, 40, onetime Morning Herald reporter, and Post editor since...
Politicians & Profits. The Post also keeps a sharp and critical eye on the island's Australian government. "Nobody ever got hurt by free speech except bad politicians and complacent bureaucrats," said Glover, drawing an early bead on both. His paper constantly needles the administration's listless native education program, helped earn New Guinea's Chinese new recognition as suitable candidates for citizenship, patiently runs down every tale of Jim Crow injustice from its colored readers. As vigorous a practitioner as a preacher, the Post four years ago set up a native training program in its composing room...
Trade School. In Hartford, Conn., denying any attempt to escape, Convict Charles Glover explained that he had tied bedsheets together because he wanted to learn how to braid hair...
...Bassey has one of the fastest pairs of fists in boxing, but he is also a bleeder who cuts easily around the eyes. He lost two fights earlier in his career when cuts were opened up. Davey Moore. 25, a minister's son and ex-Golden Glover from Springfield, Ohio, was just the kind of fighter who spells bad news for Bassey-a rugged slugger with a darting left and a clubbing right. The fight crowd knew it, and Bassey was no better than even money at the opening bell...