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...Louis Globe-Democrat Publisher Richard Amberg is always dreaming up ways to get the jump on the rival Post-Dispatch. Recently, he commissioned the Globe-Democrat March. "The Globe-Democrat is a strong, militant, patriotic paper," he explained, "and I thought a march would be in character." At its premiere in a park concert performed by the Laclede Gas Co. band, Composer Alfonso D'Artega likened the "smooth and elegant theme" to the "editorial, society and Sunday-magazine sections of the newspaper." The paper pronounced the piece a hit: "When it was over-all too quickly, it seemed...
Unpleasant Fact. Like everybody else, columnists were taken by surprise. Nevertheless, New York Post Theater Critic Richard Watts Jr. found the wit to quip that "it is safe to predict that someone will soon be blaming Lyndon Johnson for the whole ugly Middle Eastern crisis." Sure enough, someone soon was. The very next day, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Columnist Marquis Childs declared that the "real significance" of the war is that the "Johnson brand of consensus diplomacy has disastrously failed"-an interpretation that, had they read it, would have certainly startled the Arabs and Israelis-not to mention the Russians...
When St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer George Hall dines with certain friends, he knows that he is welcome-but his paper is so detested that it is not allowed over the doorstep. When St. Louis Public Relations Man Harry Wilson has an important news item for the press, he is torn between releasing it in time for the morning Globe-Democrat or the afternoon Post-Dispatch-either way, one of the papers is sure to squawk. When Globe Food Editor Marian O'Brien was writing a column recently, she got carried away by the combative sense of loyalty...
...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, hip-shooting" are epithets commonly hurled at the Globe. "Sluggish, effete, unpatriotic" are some of the names the Post-Dispatch is called. "The kindest word our critics use is liberal," says P-D Architectural Writer George McCue...
...Join or Not to Join. One cause of competition is publishers. Except for the fact that both went to Harvard, they have virtually nothing in common. The Post-Dispatch's Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 54, grandson of the founder, is urbane, aristocratic, international-minded and remote. Globe Publisher Richard H. Amberg, 55, who was brought in from Syracuse by Sam Newhouse when he bought the paper in 1955, is hard driving, domineering, locally oriented and a joiner. He is reputed, in fact, to have joined more civic organizations than any other publisher in the U.S., and he is constantly supporting...