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Last week death broke one of the remaining links between the late great Joseph Pulitzer and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dead from a stroke was 83-year-old George Sibley Johns, one of the great ancients of journalism, whose busiest years ended in 1930 when he became editor emeritus...
The career of Editor Johns on the P-D extended from the days of John A. Cockerill, who as managing editor had to shoot an indignant reader in self-defense, to the brawling '20s when the P-D thundered against Prohibition, whooped it up for the League of Nations...
Editor Johns joined the P-D five years after Pulitzer bought it. The year he started saw the purchase of the New York World. It wasn't long before Johns was Pulitzer's liaison man between New York and the PD. His powers were enormous. Typical of Pulitzer...
Born at St. Charles, Mo., three years before the Civil War, Editor Johns studied at Princeton, was a legman on the Princetonian when Woodrow Wilson was editor. Meeting Wilson years later, Johns remarked: "You taught me all I know about journalism, and I taught you all you know about statesmanship...
When President Roosevelt last January called in Dr. Isaiah Bowman, 62-year-old President of Johns Hopkins University and a famed geographer, to find a definition of the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Bowman first suggested the 26th meridian, which would still leave Iceland in Europe's hemisphere. When the 26th...