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...Post's quarters, on crowded old Washington Street, look about as quaint as its makeup. Grozier kept it that way because he did not want to change its old-fashioned appearance. When he needed more room, he dug it out underground, equipped the Post with a modern plant whose presses spread through five subterranean floors. One of the paper's major handicaps has been the advertising edge enjoyed by its competitors (Globe, Herald and Trawler, Hearst's Record and American), which have both morning & afternoon editions, enforce "combination" advertising rates for both. If a recent court decision...
Underground Roars. In recent years, the Post has had no firm hand at its helm. After the death of Grozier's son Richard in 1946, the paper was technically under the direction of two executors. Actually, City Editor Dunn, Managing Editor Charles R. Doyle and Sunday Editor John Griffin ran the editorial side pretty much as they liked. Sentimentally fond of the Post's slapdash makeup, they came to feel it was "just the way the readers like...
Belles & Bears. The man who gave the Post that reputation was Edwin A. Grozier, who, as Joseph Pulitzer's secretary, had studied under a master. When Grozier bought the Post in 1891, it had less than 3,000 circulation. Grozier sent it climbing by such stunts as opening up the society pages, previously the exclusive preserve of Beacon Hill belles, to rosy-cheeked colleens from the South Boston slums. He sent Joe Knowles, a nature lover, into the Maine woods to prove that a man could live like Adam, without clothing or utensils. Knowles came back with the skin...
...Same. Oct. 10 7:00 -9:00 Ward 10-Fire House, Taylor Square, junction of Huron Avenue, Garden and Sherman Streets. Oct. 10, 14 7:00 - 9:00 Ward 1-Kelley School 48 Willow St. Oct. 10, 14 7:00 - 9:00 Ward 9-Russell School, Grozier Road entrance...
...saluting the Nazi flag carried by a passing detachment (TIME, Sept. 18). There were also several well-known U. S. Jewish classmates, including Lee Simonson, famed scenic artist, and Edwin Isaak Marks, vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Other "Putzy" classmates: Boston Post Publisher Richard Grozier; Francis B. Biddle and Arthur E. Newbold, both of Philadelphia; Playwright Robert Middlemass Middlemass and Theodore Roosevelt...