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...among $150,000 worth of other things, 480 pairs of silk stockings just bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. Pendergast was reported to have quickly won back his loss at the race track. A hard-boiled politician, he is extremely vulnerable to caricature in the hostile St. Louis Press??? bloated face and body, long arms, short spindle legs. To keep his machine greased, he always carries a pocket full of quarters, passes them out to Kansas City bums. Though his man lost the Senatorial nomination, he succeeded in naming the Democratic candidate for Governor, Francis Wilson...
Whatever the reason for these discrepancies, the Press made the most of them. Here was not only the mysterious death of a tycoon, but of a man of the Press??? an occasion for extra zeal. Paul Patterson, Mr. Black's publishing associate, satisfied investigators that Mr. Black, a drinking man, had not been drunk. The suicide angle was dropped when Mr. Patterson explained that Mr. Black's estrangement from his wife was a ''happy mismating." But front-page stories for two days stressed the variance in the ships' reports, expressing by their emphasis and alertness a professional suspicion that there...
...government troops, some of the Post's readers supposed that this meant the super-reporting of Novelist Lewis would not come off. Others were more hopeful, remembering that Mr. Lewis had been a reporter?in New Haven, Conn., in San Francisco, and hither and yon for the Associated Press???before ever he sold a novel; and that even now his literary technique is regarded by critics simply as superlative journalese. They fancied Sinclair Lewis could do as much with the aftermath of a brief city riot as most correspondents could do with a full-fledged civil war. They were right...
TIME is 100% free press???in its news columns. Its advertising columns are for sale?to those advertisers who, in the opinion of TIME'S managers, are "best business" for TIME and its readers...
...press???or a section of it? more truthful, more civilized than politics...