Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes later he was a politician again. Tall, handsome Harry Darby, G.O.P. national committeeman in Kansas, came up and gave him the inside on how Alf Landon had been given a drubbing at the Republican state convention in Wichita. (Roberts dabbles little in Missouri politics but-because the Star is the biggest paper in Kansas-he is Kansas' top GOPower...
Roberts did. He wrote a story headlined IKE MEANS "No," and put it, under his own byline, on Page One of the Star. It was the kind of story he likes best: an exclusive that would cause a stir among the politicians. He padded happily around the desks, whacking backs and ruffling hair. "I never get over seeing that byline," he beamed. "I'll always be a reporter...
...Unofficial Capital." Then he turned his attention to the main business of the day. It was mayoralty election day in Kansas City. The Star's old hands, who remembered the late Tom Pendergast's heyday (1911-39), could hardly believe it: there was not one report of a head-cracking at the polls. The voting was light...
Roberts took a couple of hours out for the gusty kind of entertaining he enjoys most. He rounded up a dozen Star staffers, herded them over to the Kansas City Club and up to a comfortably furnished suite numbered 822. A lot of Kansas Citians call 822 "the unofficial capital of Kansas." It is a club-within-a-club with only 36 members, all bigwig Missourians or Kansans. (Harry Truman, an infrequent guest who was regarded by Roberts as a soft touch at its big green poker table, was made an honorary member after he became President...
...They used to vote about 385 to 6 for the machine. Look what they got - only two to one." It was soon clear that the election was in the bag for the Citizens Association, a loose fusion of anti-Pendergast Democrats, yeasty Republicans and independents, held together by the Star's backing. What was left of Old Tom's once mighty machine, now run with little enthusiasm by his nephew Jim, had taken its fifth straight election beating from the town's "good deeders."* Kansas City's reform government seemed safe for a while...