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...Louis Post-Dispatch named other "sandbag" operations...
Last week death broke one of the remaining links between the late great Joseph Pulitzer and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dead from a stroke was 83-year-old George Sibley Johns, one of the great ancients of journalism, whose busiest years ended in 1930 when he became editor emeritus of the Post-Dispatch after 48 years as a newspaperman...
Died. George Sibley Johns, 83, head of the editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from...
...technique in reporter-training was "Get 'em young and work hell out of 'em." His main difficulty was keeping reporters, on the budget that Publisher Roberts allowed him. He had no sooner got reporters trained than they were hired away for a few dollars more by the Post-Dispatch. He made reporters out of copy boys, sometimes had to send out kids to compete against the Post-Dispatch's crack reporters. To one reporter he yelled: "Shut up, or I'll throw you out the window." But he liked those who stood up to him, reneged...
When Editor Taylor's retirement was announced, his bitter rival, Editor Ben Reese of the Post-Dispatch, was the first to telephone his congratulations on a magnificent record. He concluded: "I can't say that I'm sorry to see you quit, however. So far as the Post-Dispatch is concerned you've been Public Enemy...