Word: pd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admits he is wearying of the daily grind. All questions about the future are referred by Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 44, to Editorial Page Editor Robert Lasch, 51, who took over in October of last year, has given deft direction to the crusades of the idealistic, New Deal-leaning PD. "Maybe Mauldin will be taken on as a kind of understudy to Fitz," says Lasch. "But maybe we won't like Mauldin, and maybe he won't like us. I really don't know what will happen...
...meekly passed on the warning and was speedily raised to $50 a week to keep Webster from carrying out his threat. There was no doubt that he could carry it out. For most of the 40 years he has covered the federal beat for the city staff of the PD, big (250 Ibs., 6 ft. 4 in.), jovial Ray Webster ("You'll never get a story until you show some sources you can drink more than they can") has been undisputed dean of the "beat men," a vanishing breed of U.S. newsmen who are more at home...
...only P-D reporter to have a special "saloon expense account." His expense account also included other unorthodox items. Once he bought an overcoat to go to Indianapolis to cover a crime story. When other reporters refused to believe that he had charged the coat to the PD, Webster told them stiffly: "If you're going to act like an office boy, you'll be treated like an office boy and you'll stay cold. I happen to be a Post-Dispatch reporter and I intend to act like one-a warm one." (The paper paid...
...United Features, went back to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he had been a staffer for 18 years before leaving to start his column in 1944. United Features will continue to syndicate his P-D stories three days a week, but Childs will be paid by the PD, not the syndicate. Childs had a candid explanation for his return to the PD. Says he: "There's a terrible danger of becoming a stuck whistle as a columnist...
...PD, Childs will work out of Washington, concentrating on interpretive reporting of foreign affairs (he left this week for the Berlin conference and a tour of Europe). While Childs decided to go back to his old paper at "a slight financial loss," he thinks this will be more than made up by the freedom of his new job. Says Childs: "I feel I will have more latitude as a reporter. I think the column's been doing very well, but there was the danger of becoming sort of a croaker. I wanted to avoid that by going back...