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This was a bit much for many newspapers. The Miami Herald dropped one column, in which the editors counted what they considered to be several errors of fact or judgment, and heavily edited two others. Other papers-the Milwaukee Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland Press and Philadelphia Bulletin-decided against running at least three of the columns...
...first assignments for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1923, Cub Reporter Milburn Peter Akers followed a sack of potatoes from farmer to housewife to find out why they were so expensive. He handed in a story that had plenty of potatoes but no meat. He had failed to question critically each middleman's excuse for jacking up the price. When the city editor read the piece, he tore it to shreds and bellowed: "You let everybody impose on your credulity!" "On the way back to my desk," recalls Akers, "I looked up credulity in the dictionary...
Three generations of Akers' forebears were Methodist ministers; he was a preacher only at heart. After his stint on the Post-Dispatch, he became a political reporter in Springfield, later moved up to Chicago for the A. P. during gang-war days. In 1937, Akers took a fling at politics himself and wound up as an assistant to Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. But he soon beat a hasty retreat. "Anybody who leaves the newspaper business for a political job," he says now, "is kind of silly...
...Stand. Some death notices, like Miss Hopkins', mature along with their subjects. In St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch obituary on former Mayor Bernard Dickmann, now 76, has gathered dust for 30 years. The Chicago Tribune cast two galleys of type on Charles Lindbergh so long ago that no one on the staff remembers the obituary's vintage year. During a 1936 visit to San Francisco, George Bernard Shaw, then 79, was offered the chance to edit his own obit in the Chronicle. Shaw let it stand...
...Star, delivered the News every afternoon. In between, he filed so many space-rate stories for the News that the paper put him on a reporter's salary ($8 a week) to save money. Ambition led him to St. Louis in 1905, but when Joseph Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch did not promote him rapidly enough to suit him, Roy Howard, then 22, quit...