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...Boiled down." says Joseph Pulitzer II, son and namesake of the founder and publisher-president of the PD, "the Platform simply means printing an honest newspaper." This week the paper celebrated its 75th anniversary in typical P-D style by looking far beyond the boundaries of Missouri. Instead of citywide fanfare, dinners and speechmaking, it put out a fat anniversary supplement, The Second American Revolution, with 33 articles on the American scene by everybody from former President Harry Truman, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to Poet W. H. Auden, Playwright Robert Sherwood and Cartoonist...
...everything from forcing a corrupt federal judge to resign and the exposure of the Teapot Dome scandals by the late Paul Y. Anderson to a series on the Depression '30s by the late Charles G. Ross, who became President Truman's press secretary after leaving the PD. The paper itself has won five "meritorious public service" Pulitzers: for exposing wholesale padding of vote registration lists in St. Louis elections (1937), its campaign to rid the city of smoke (1941), an investigation of the Centralia mine disaster (1948), rooting out newspapermen on the Illinois state payroll (1950), and exposing...
Coverage of the Centralia mine disaster, in which in 111 miners were killed, was typical of how the P-D works. In 1947, after the last body was pulled from the mine, scores of newsmen from other papers went home. Not the PD. It doubled its staff on the assignment, in due time established what it suspected: that the State Department of Mines was shaking down mine owners and overlooking dangerous working conditions. As a result, Illinois mine-safety laws were tightened...
...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...
...time drawing instead of studying. He worked his way through the Chicago Art Institute by sweeping floors, working in a cafeteria, ushering at a theater and cooking on an ore boat. He finally landed a staff job on the Chicago Daily News, and at 22 was hired by the PD, where he has been ever since. Now, earning one of the highest salaries of any political cartoonist in the U.S., Fitz thinks newspaper cartooning has suffered because good artists have deserted it for more lucrative fields. Says he: "Many artists who might have become editorial cartoonists have gone into comic...