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...other hand, on a fast-breaking story; the city staff can mobilize as fast as a Manhattan tabloid covering a shooting in a Park Avenue love nest. Recently the P-D got a head start on the Greenlease kidnaping, when John Kinsella, its veteran police reporter, noticed an unusual stir of activity around headquarters. He rightly guessed that the kidnapers had been found, and thus put the P-D in position to turn loose a 13-man staff on the story before any other paper...
Bovard always thought of the P-D first, expected his reporters to do the same. Once, a staffer covering a woman's club meeting telephoned the office and told the managing editor that the platform had collapsed, but that Mrs. Bovard, who was at the meeting, was unhurt. "Never mind that," snapped Bovard. "Have you got the story for the Post-Dispatch?" On the day he resigned, Bovard told Reporter Sam Shelton, who is now assistant to the publisher: "There are only two things I regret upon my retirement . . . One of them is the unsolved Neu murder case...
...carried on with the same driving, unsentimental tenacity by burly, hard-boiled Managing Editor Ben Reese, who retired in 1951, and now by a milder-mannered crusader, Raymond L. Crowley, 58, a staffer for 31 years and, like both Reese and Bovard, a longtime city editor. Over the P-D's 1,650-man staff is the paper's, unchallenged boss, Joseph Pulitzer II, 68, who, like his late father, has long suffered from failing eyesight; he keeps a battery of secretaries reading the paper to him line-by-line every day (including ads). Whether in his office...
...tradition set by Bovard, P-D staffers, whose salaries are as high as any newspaper in the U.S., keep aloof from outside organizations, rarely accept invitations to pressagents' parties, return gifts that are sent to them, pay their way wherever they go. The PD, which in 1951 bought the ailing Star-Times (circ. 179,803) and now is the only evening paper in St. Louis, seldom loses a staffer to any other newspaper. When the flow of news is heavy the news department rules, decides how much space it will need, leaves the rest for ads. The P-D...
Locally, the P-D's editorials have power as well as a sharp bite, often are bolstered by the talents of Daniel R. ("Fitz") Fitzpatrick, probably the most widely reprinted editorial cartoonist in the U.S. (TIME, June 22). But nationally, the P-D's unpredictable behavior makes its editorials much less a power than its crusading news columns. Readers, who now think of the paper as the unwavering voice of New and Fair Dealism, forget that in 1936 the P-D supported Landon against Roosevelt. And when F.D.R. gave 50 destroyers to Britain in the early days...