Word: post-dispatch
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...sudden news vacuum, the press moved troops. Daily airborne platoons of newsmen landed at Havana's Rancho Boyeros, and the A.P. snapped to military attention: "The Associated Press moved extensive reinforcements into Havana today." Some of the arrivals were trained hands: Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, the New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelly. Most were not, like the Vancouver Sun's Fashion Editor Marie Moreau, abruptly shifted from a haute couture visit in New York, to a Havana jig ("My third dancing partner casually unstrapped...
...LOUIS POST-DISPATCH: WE would guess that the greatest discontent of 1958 focuses on the conduct of foreign policy by John Foster Dulles...
...Nixon has never shown a white feather concerning Communism. The smearing cartoons by the Washington Post's Herblock and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Mauldin must have caused their editors to give them a "shower" of red stars. It would be appropriate if these cartoonists signed their names in red ink. ANNA MAE G. COUMBOURAS Springfield, Mass...
...surrender" egg, originally hatched out of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, was set down in the slow incubator of the Congressional Record (along with two routine editorials on farm legislation) by Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. The report stayed quietly warm for four days, then popped from its shell. Somehow, perhaps even by finally getting around to reading the Record, it came to the attention of Republican Senators. When the G.O.P. congressional leaders went to the White House for a legislative meeting with the President, they asked the Army's Dwight Eisenhower what all the surrender...
President Eisenhower's quick anger swiftly communicated itself to the Pentagon, which found itself being turned inside out by buzzing brasshats trying to find out what all the shooting was about. They soon discovered that the original Post-Dispatch story had been vastly overblown, growing out of a highly theoretical study of the history and nature of national surrender, completely nonspecific as far as mention of the U.S. was concerned. It was inaugurated seven years before by the Rand Corp., a private research agency with Air Force contracts, and was finally published in book form last spring...