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...from neighboring towns. In his notes and in his uncertain camera, he imprisoned a homely record that dealt with horses, people, auctions, and little girls who raise rabbits. When he had enough of a haul, he headed home to St. Louis and his desk at Joseph Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch...
...people who read his rambling columns, "Bee" Behymer is as durable a Midwest institution as his paper, which is only 67. He has written for the Post-Dispatch since 1888, when the late City Editor Charles E. Chapin (who ended up at Sing Sing for killing his wife) took him on as/correspondent at Belleville...
...become journalists, but most (71%) of them chose journalism as a career and planned accordingly. Very few began on TIME. With an exception or so, they came to us from newspapers and magazines all over the U.S.-especially from the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Seattle Times-after about ten years' work apiece as reporters, re-writemen, editors, editorial writers, critics, sports writers. One put in 15 years on the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg, South Africa...
Died. Oliver K. Bovard, 73, austere, softspoken, longtime managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and power behind his paper's famed crusades against political and industrial corruption (Teapot Dome, Tom Pendergast, Union Electric) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Louis. He paid his men well, fired them only for indifference or disloyalty, ruled his roost with icy justice. One of Bovard s ex-copyreaders, fired for sneaking P-D copy to a public utility before publication, once asked for his job back, pleading that he "had to live." Asked Bovard...
...Louis, whose big three daily newspapers are closed by a strike, got itself a new paper last week. Its publishers (the Newspaper Guildsmen and three backshop unions of the strike-bound Post-Dispatch, the Star-Times and Globe-Democrat) hoped it would not live long. So did St. Louis readers, who found the skimpy four pages of its first issue an inadequate substitute. To start their St. Louis Daily News, Guildsmen wangled a first allotment of 16¼ tons of newsprint from WPB (which will allow any new daily paper that much), persuaded a south St. Louis neighborhood publisher...