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Wiggle in the Tail. Born on a farm in Kansas, she majored in journalism at Kansas State College, worked as a staffer on Farm & Fireside before going to the Trib 17 years ago. Ever since. Columnist Paddleford has been writing for the Trib six times a week, has never missed a working day, and now makes around $30,000 a year. Her hard-working day starts every morning at 5:30 a.m. when she makes out a daily schedule for herself, often beginning with an early-morning stop at the food markets. At her East Side Manhattan apartment (where...
...resounding principles either engraved on their buildings or printed in their pages. But at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 391,890), the "Platform" is not only embedded in the walls and run every day on the editorial page; it is so deeply implanted in the minds of every staffer that it has made the P-D the leading crusading newspaper in the U.S. By standing on the Platform he drafted for his heirs, the P-D's late great founder, Joseph Pulitzer, brought on 17 libel suits in the first three years of the paper's life...
Bovard always thought of the P-D first, expected his reporters to do the same. Once, a staffer covering a woman's club meeting telephoned the office and told the managing editor that the platform had collapsed, but that Mrs. Bovard, who was at the meeting, was unhurt. "Never mind that," snapped Bovard. "Have you got the story for the Post-Dispatch?" On the day he resigned, Bovard told Reporter Sam Shelton, who is now assistant to the publisher: "There are only two things I regret upon my retirement . . . One of them is the unsolved Neu murder case...
...Heart Is a Home. Bovard's style of journalism was carried on with the same driving, unsentimental tenacity by burly, hard-boiled Managing Editor Ben Reese, who retired in 1951, and now by a milder-mannered crusader, Raymond L. Crowley, 58, a staffer for 31 years and, like both Reese and Bovard, a longtime city editor. Over the P-D's 1,650-man staff is the paper's, unchallenged boss, Joseph Pulitzer II, 68, who, like his late father, has long suffered from failing eyesight; he keeps a battery of secretaries reading the paper...
...tradition set by Bovard, P-D staffers, whose salaries are as high as any newspaper in the U.S., keep aloof from outside organizations, rarely accept invitations to pressagents' parties, return gifts that are sent to them, pay their way wherever they go. The PD, which in 1951 bought the ailing Star-Times (circ. 179,803) and now is the only evening paper in St. Louis, seldom loses a staffer to any other newspaper. When the flow of news is heavy the news department rules, decides how much space it will need, leaves the rest...