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That personality got the Post-Dispatch in trouble. An outraged citizen who felt that he had been insulted by a P-D crusade stormed into the newspaper office, threatened Editor John Cockerill and was shot dead for his trouble...
...blues-the blues expressing, no doubt, the melancholy of running second in a two-horse race." Besides, said the PD, it had scooped the Globe by 76 years-Composer Louis Stockigt's Post-Dispatch March was first played at the St. Louis Exposition in 1891. Gushed the P-D at the time: "The members of the band overwhelmed the composer with congratulations. They pronounced his music as bright and catchy as the newspaper in whose honor it was composed...
...alive-which is all the more surprising considering that the papers appear on the newsstands at different times of day. As in other cities where there is no competition in the morning or evening, the papers could simply settle down and enjoy their profits. Instead the Globe and the P-D choose to fight it out. And the citizens of St. Louis fight right along with them. "Some swear by the Globe," says former Mayor Raymond Tucker, now professor of urban affairs at Washington University, "and some swear by the Post-Dispatch." And some swear at them. "Unfair, reactionary...
...public-relations man, George Carson, "It's aimed strictly at radio and television. We want to sell the newspaper industry. We want to help all newspapers, even the Post-Dispatch.'' No one at the Globe minded, though, that the campaign struck a glancing blow at the P-D's radio and television affiliates...
Maybe Pulitzer will. In four years in St. Louis, Mauldin amply proved his right to succeed the P-D's famed, caustic Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, who retired...