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...Wield the Lash. As P-D city editor for 25 years, big (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Ben Reese had built up a crack staff by painstaking direction and a relentless, daily wielding of the lash on staffers who failed to give him what he wanted ("Tell him the Post-Dispatch wants to know, and don't come back without the story"). He had developed many a bannerline expose through his dogged, relentless pursuit of the smallest story clue, spent as much as $50,000 to break a hot story. In 1936, for example, by sending a dozen...
...planned to fly immediately to Indo-China, wield both political and military authority, which had been divided between High Commissioner Pignon and General Marcel Carpentier. A trim, tough disciplinarian, described by his colleagues as électrique, De Lattre has been chief of Western European land forces under the Brussels five-power defense union, soon to be superseded by the broader North Atlantic twelve-power pact...
Unlike the Republican 80th Congress, the Democrats would organize the 82nd. The Republicans would wield a balance of power without having to answer directly for what Congress did. They had not planned it that way, but they were mightily pleased that it was to be that...
About 20 students, anxious to wield their rights of suffrage, showed up Wednesday at what might be called the Coop's annual stockholders' meeting. As it was, they were called upon to vote on only two issues, since the secretary's report was accepted without a ballot, and the treasurer's report ("If you turn to page seven," said Mr. Humphreys, "you'll see that the Coop is fairly well heeled") was also unopposed...
Novelist Norris. a senior editor of Newsweek, has set out to write a satire of the times, and he has not quite achieved it; satire calls for a steady hand, a rapier that can reach bone. He does show that he can wield the needle of burlesque with some of the best in the business...