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So many reporters have come and gone at the Kansas City Star that the paper's register of alumni has earned it a reputation as one of the top journalism schools in the U.S. Last week 177 former I.W.A.T.S. (short for I Worked at the Star) went back to...
When Roy Roberts took over at the Star, it was a case of one corpulent autocrat replacing another. The paper's founder, 300-lb. William Rockhill Nelson, turned to journalism after dabbling in real estate, cotton farming and contracting. Defeats had only stirred Nelson's crusading spirit, and...
Local Kingmaker. When he became editor, Roberts was just as belligerent. Considering the Star the "hair shirt of the community," he joined in the growing newspaper war on the corrupt Pendergast machine, and kept firing until Pendergast was destroyed. "I'd rather report than eat," said the editor, who...
In recent years, cataracts and ulcers have slowed Roy down. He neither eats nor reports as much as he used to, though he still smokes 15 Coronas a day. In 1963 he became chairman of the board after he resigned as editor, and was replaced by Richard B. Fowler, 63...
But the other Ivy teams should never have bothered to play. Lafayette, without a win in its last 14 games, broke the string by beating Columbia 14-10. Archie Roberts' replacement, sophomore John Burns, completed only two of 13 passes.