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...picked up such pseudonyms as Kasket Karl (Denmark), Tuff a Victor (Sweden), and Jan Met de Pet (The Netherlands). When Andy spanned the Atlantic to join the stable of New York's Hall Syndicate, his success was equally smashing. Among the charter subscribers: the Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and Marshalltown (Iowa) Times-Republican...
...Valley. Special interest pages on schools, youth and clubs were added. The composing room got the lead out, changed the body type and headline style. The paper fairly dripped with zeal. Says one ex-staffer: "It was like being in on the early days of Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, TIME or The New Yorker. We all felt that we were part of a mission." The pages blossomed with news from the Star-Tribune's Washington bureau; there was a weekend wrap-up section, features on abortions, Viet Nam, the county fair and Black Muslims. Three editions blanketed...
Strikes have also led papers to combine operations, thereby cutting not only costs but jobs. In the midst of a 1959 Guild strike, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat sold its plant to the Post-Dispatch and moved into the Post building. Net job loss to the printing trade and associated unions, as the two papers merged shops: at least 180 hands. Strikes have inspired, or at least expedited, similar management responses in Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Columbus, Ohio...
...major culprits: the Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, TIME and Newsweek. On television, Rogers named NBC's Huntley and Brinkley, CBS's Charles Collingwood, ABC Commentator Howard K. Smith and even silenced Jack Paar as antagonists of free enterprise. Advertising dollars spent on such people and publications, he warned, do more harm than if business simply "paid all these millions of dollars right into the Communist Party...
...work has won the attention of his professional hero, Bill Mauldin, whom he met through correspondence when Mauldin was on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "It's genuine," Mauldin says of Reese's work, "good irony. He's shrugging off prison life, grinning wryly about it. The cartoons aren't polished or professional, but they're strong; they tell the story...