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Taking a routine item over the phone about a Masonic lodge meeting in Louisburg, Kans. (pop. 677). a Kansas City Starman perked up slightly when told that a jut-chinned visitor named Harry S. Truman had been present. "You know,'' said the caller, thoughtfully clarifying his report, ''he is the former Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge in Missouri...
...Archibald) Webster once took aggressive pity on an underpaid reporter from an opposition paper. "Listen, you," Webster gruffly told him, "the Star is going to have to raise you to $50 a week or I'll scoop you every day-and you tell your managing editor that." The Starman meekly passed on the warning and was speedily raised to $50 a week to keep Webster from carrying out his threat. There was no doubt that he could carry it out. For most of the 40 years he has covered the federal beat for the city staff...
Bullets & Ballots. The citizens and the Star got an awakening on election day in 1934. Four people were killed by gunplay and knifings at the polls as the young, earnest Citizens group tried to do something to halt illegal voting. Pendergastlies gave a Starman a pistol-whipping about the head, chased him back to the Star. From there on it was open war, with Roy Roberts, then the Star's managing editor, planning much of the reformers' strategy. It was the beginning of Pendergast's decline & fall...
...Toronto Starman Frederick Griffin reported that "a more terrible baptism [of fire] no new troops ever took, or took more splendidly." The Algonquin's commander said: "They were just as good as any reinforcements we have...
...Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper, Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Foreign Editor Charles Gratke of the Christian Science Monitor and Washington Starman Blair Bolles last week were in London, en route to visit Sweden. National Broadcasting Co.'s London man, Elmer Peterson, will go with them...