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...break the surprising news he had heard only the afternoon before. Then he sat down and wrote the news for Page One, took the story to the composing room himself. Composing Room Superintendent Earl Barker read it and gasped: the Star-Times had been sold to the rival Post-Dispatch (circ. 290,052), would publish no more after that afternoon's press...
...Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer had bought the Star-Times's name, linotypes, presses, newsprint and circulation (179,803) to gain a monopoly in the afternoon field, leave St. Louis with only one other daily newspaper, the thriving morning Globe-Democrat (circ. 282,611). Reported price: between $3,500,000 and $8,000,000. The downtown five-story Star-Times building was not included in the deal; neither was the paper's ABC radio outlet, KXOK, or its FM affiliate. Star-Times Publisher Elzey Roberts had sold out because "material costs have risen faster than the increased revenues...
...Harris of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked: "Has Mrs. Truman made up her mind?" Chuckling, the President replied that she has never been very enthusiastic about my holding office, but she has had to put up with it for 30 years...
...Lutheran theologian, he went to Harvard, where he studied writing under Critic Bernard DeVoto ("Cut out those adjectives"), became president of the Crimson, got a degree in History and Literature. Fuerbringer went back home to a reporter's job on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a practical journalism school which carried in its masthead Joseph Pulitzer's injunction: "Never be satisfied with merely printing news." There he heard the exhortations of a demanding city editor on how to get a story ("Don't come back until you've got it") and the need for accuracy ("When...
Fuerbringer dug out and wrote the first comprehensive story of St. Louis gambling bosses, an early-day Kefauver-type investigation, one of the many that have appeared over the years in the Post-Dispatch. He covered the state legislature and city political campaigns, spent many of his afternoons digging up stories at St. Louis' famed zoo, started an art column and wrote book reviews. After an eight-month trip through Europe, he turned out a series on pre-Munich Germany. Meanwhile, he also wrote features for The Saturday Evening Post...