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...refer to George S. Johns, fighting editor, grand old man among American journalists. Thirty-five years "Editor of the Editorial Page" of the Post-Dispatch and at present very much alive and enjoying the position of associate editor of that paper...
...parade of 16 "Executive Editors" whom Editor Ross has successively hired in a mad search for System. The procedure is invariable: Ross finds a new genius at a cocktail party or on a newspaper or in an advertising agency, promptly installs him as Executive Editor. Oldtimers on the staff refer to the luckless incumbent as "Jesus." For a few weeks, perhaps for a few months, "Jesus" is given what is supposed to be a free hand. Then Editor Ross is assailed by doubts. Soon he takes issue with every decision that "Jesus" makes, and presently his hostility becomes a deep...
...gets on the subject of "invisible government" his thin, sarcastic voice grows shrill with rage. But he is a good teacher. Two years ago Pitt seniors voted him their most popular professor. If anyone still doubted that he was a good teacher, Ralph Edmund Turner could and did refer him last week to no less an authority than John Gabbert Bowman, who few years ago publicly called him "one of the ten best professors in the University...
...money? "Mercy, mercy no!" All she had said was that some church money had been "diverted." By whom? Why, she had never said. Miss Nellie Prietzel and five other parishioners said she had. Six others said she had not. Mrs. Charles Edwards said she had heard Rector Livingston refer to one of his ladies as a "rattlesnake." Rector Livingston said he had not. He said Miss Julia Smith had told someone that he ought to be "behind the bars." Miss Julia Smith said she had not. Someone said Miss Smith had once broken up a Ladies Aid Meeting by tossing...
...comparing Tuscaloosa's picturesqueness with a North African city. "On the next day six serious young men waited upon me with a petition asking me to retract the state ments I had made with regard to their native city. . . ." It did not take him long to learn to refer to "The War Between the States...