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...alumni, for whom 40 rooms were reserved at St. Louis' Hotel Jefferson, ranged from Communist Robert Minor to elegant, man-about-Manhattan Herbert Bayard Swope. They rolled into St. Louis-on Pulitzer's money and no encouragement from the ODT-from all parts of the U.S. The P-D's No. 1 alumnus, aloof, astute Oliver Kirby ("O.K.") Bovard, 72, managing editor for 28 of the P-D's greatest years, was ill and sent regrets...
...P-D admirers usually credit its special virtues to Bovard, or to the present trio of top men: cocky, trigger-tempered Ralph Coghlan, editorial-page chief; moose-tall, desk-pounding Managing Editor Benjamin Harrison Reese; Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick. They were, indeed, all on the team that carried through the P-D's most successful crusades: the Teapot Dome exposure, the impeachment of Federal Judge English, the Union Electric Co. slush-fund scandal, the 1936 registration frauds. But Pulitzer has backed them, ignoring the protests of his country-club friends...
What has kept him to the P-D's vigorously crusading ways is a more-than-filial admiration of Pulitzer Sr. and all he stood for. Each year, on the anniversary of the elder Pulitzer's death, presses stop and lights go out for one minute. Busts of the Hungarian immigrant boy who became one of journalism's greats adorn the P-D building. And the platform that Pulitzer Sr. wrote is repeated each day atop the editorial page: "Always fight demagogues of all parties . . . never be satisfied with merely printing news . .. . never be afraid to attack...
While the Star-Times kept the story boiling, the sedate morning Globe-Democrat scoffed from the sidelines, dismissed the charges as "tavern talk." The P-D went farther. It gathered Army interviews and statements, backed the War Department's position: that no more defective ammunition was passing inspection than could reasonably be expected in such a large plant...
...through Johns that Oliver K. Bovard, famed ex-managing editor of the P-D was taken on the paper. As a reporter for the St. Louis Star, Bovard unearthed all the facts in a bribery case that his paper figured was too hot to handle. He took his story to the PD, was hired, and Johns, then an editorial writer, promptly had it printed. Bovard stayed on to become nationally celebrated for his successful six-year struggle to crack the Teapot Dome scandal...