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When he lunches at his desk, his wife, Kate Davis Pulitzer Putnam (widow of a World War II flyer, sister of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Editor-Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr.), sends his food over by messenger. His easy smile, his compact, 183-Ib. frame and close-cropped, curly hair help him when he wants to be charming-and his short-fused temper is almost legendary. "Pete wants to hear a clear and specific answer, or 'Yes,' 'No,' or 'Maybe,' " says one staffer. "God help anybody who starts to answer Quesada with...
FRANK J. PRINCE, MAIN UNIVERSAL MATCH OWNER, is EX-CONVICT, trumpeted a St. Louis Post-Dispatch headline over a long story carrying the byline of tough, tireless Reporter Ted Link. The story told how Frank Prince, 71, principal stockholder in St. Louis' Universal Match Corp. and a complex of subsidiary firms, had, between 1908 and 1925, served three prison terms, totaling nearly ten years, for forgery, grand larceny, and issuing fraudulent checks. Two days later the PD, in its ice-cold charity, followed up with another Prince piece, repeating the same facts and adding a few of even less...
...Post-Dispatch stories were factually accurate. Frank Prince did have a prison record. That record was known to many if not all of his friends and business associates. It was known to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had nonetheless cleared Prince for defense contracts. It had even been mentioned in Dun & Bradstreet. Indeed, among those closest to Prince, two of the few who did not know of his record were his wife and 24-year...
Return for a Gift. But were the Post-Dispatch stories relevant as news? By the paper's own accounting, Frank Prince had stayed in the clear for the last 35 years. The manner in which the stories came about added even graver doubts as to their moral merit. Last fall Prince gave $500,000 to St. Louis' Washington University. Although he attached no strings to the gift, the university planned to name a building after him. It was while gathering biographical material on Philanthropist Prince that the crime-hunting Post-Dispatch came across the facts of his distant...
...least the next two months, hard-punching Duffy, who once drew Franklin D. Roosevelt's arm brandishing a blackjack over the U.S. Supreme Court, will fill in for the Post's liberal (and two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner) Cartoonist Herbert Lawrence ("Herblock") Block, 50, decommissioned last September by a heart attack. For a while the Post got along by running the work of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Bill Mauldin and others, but Post Publisher Philip Graham decided that Herblock needed a fulltime pinch hitter. Herblock agreed. "He went madly for the idea," said Graham...