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...admirers usually credit its special virtues to Bovard, or to the present trio of top men: cocky, trigger-tempered Ralph Coghlan, editorial-page chief; moose-tall, desk-pounding Managing Editor Benjamin Harrison Reese; Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick. They were, indeed, all on the team that carried through the P-D's most successful crusades: the Teapot Dome exposure, the impeachment of Federal Judge English, the Union Electric Co. slush-fund scandal, the 1936 registration frauds. But Pulitzer has backed them, ignoring the protests of his country-club friends...
...telephone contact with his editors, and peppers them with yellow memos. Blind in one eye, and able to see only silhouettes with the other, he shoots only when a duck is outlined in the sky, fishes, like anybody else, by waiting for the tug. On his Ozark trips, Cartoonist Fitzpatrick, 54, often goes along...
Slim, deceptively mild Cartoonist Fitzpatrick fell out with Pulitzer's politics in 1936, when the PD, after publishing a dozen of Fitz's anti-Landon cartoons, came out against Roosevelt (it supported F.D.R. again, however, in '40 and '44). Fitz, refusing to draw pro-Landon cartoons, more or less expected to be fived. But Pulitzer only remarked to him: "Sorry you couldn't go along with us." Fitz, a P-D man for 31 years, summed up last week: "Hell, I wouldn't last a week with Hearst. This paper is run as near...
...never too busy to politick, conferred with Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan and New York State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick on the 1946 New York gubernatorial election, still 19 months away. The conversation apparently was heady. Emerging from the White House, Chairman Fitzpatrick made a bold prediction: if Tom Dewey runs for reelection in 1946, he will be defeated...
...Stalin's own Georgia and longtime student of Russian history. Only result of the complaints: an embarrassed changing of the subject. Last week, Correspondent Kendrick, fed up with cabling home rehashes of the Moscow papers, suggested that he be recalled. The Inquirer's managing editor John J. Fitzpatrick agreed, cabled Al Kendrick: "Further stay useless. . . . Come home as soon as possible...