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Publisher of the sport magazine is H. (for Harry) H. S. Phillips Jr., who has been with TIME Inc. for 18 years and was advertising director of TIME. Managing Editor is Sidney L. James, ex-staffer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who also came to TIME Inc. in 1936 and was assistant managing editor of LIFE. Said Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce: "The new magazine will be a re-evaluation of sport-not an over-evaluation-to put it in its proper place as one of the great new modes of expression...
...Louis Post-Dispatch's veteran Federal Building reporter, Ray A. (for Archibald) Webster once took aggressive pity on an underpaid reporter from an opposition paper. "Listen, you," Webster gruffly told him, "the Star is going to have to raise you to $50 a week or I'll scoop you every day-and you tell your managing editor that." The Starman meekly passed on the warning and was speedily raised to $50 a week to keep Webster from carrying out his threat. There was no doubt that he could carry it out. For most of the 40 years...
Last week in St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch celebrated the retirement of Ray Webster, 65, with a special, four-page newspaper, Webster Good Times ("Published Once-and That's Enough"), which regretfully headlined: SCOOPS WILL...
...other reporters refused to believe that he had charged the coat to the PD, Webster told them stiffly: "If you're going to act like an office boy, you'll be treated like an office boy and you'll stay cold. I happen to be a Post-Dispatch reporter and I intend to act like one-a warm one." (The paper paid...
...policy] agreement within its own ranks . . . If we are to save ourselves, we must . . . think anew and act anew." The sentiment was not new, but for Childs it had a special meaning. This week he quit as a political pundit for United Features, went back to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he had been a staffer for 18 years before leaving to start his column in 1944. United Features will continue to syndicate his P-D stories three days a week, but Childs will be paid by the PD, not the syndicate. Childs had a candid explanation...