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...Missourian named Benjamin Harrison Reese. Editor Reese has just one aim in life: to see that the Post-Dispatch lives up to its reputation his predecessors gave it. In that ambition he is backed by two fighting Irish henchmen: ruddy Editorial Editor Ralph Coghlan, sandy-haired Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contempt of Court | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Recently Jerome Fitzpatrick, superintendent of Westbury's schools, told a science supervisor in the State Education Department about Fat Stuff. The science supervisor suggested educational possibilities in Fat Stuff that had not occurred to Mr. Fitzpatrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fat Stuff | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Philadelphia: "From the efforts and demands of the Government agents, it appears that I may well paraphrase the words of Nathan Hale-my only regret is that I haven't enough remaining years to give my country." Immensely rich, newly humble Moses Annenberg was meat for Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick, who in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch limned a pigmy Annenberg fleeing a gigantic and pursuing Uncle Sam, quipped: "Anybody making book on this race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crime | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...best method Fitzpatrick has yet devised is to stagger in with a champagne glass, pretending to be just "one of the boys." When asked what was his most embarrassing moment, the scourge of the pretty debs blushed while admitting that once he cut in on an old man dancing with a "fetching girl robed in white taffeta" (courtesy Betty Alden's column, "On Beacon Hill") and asked her "Who was that old geezer you were dancing with?" The fetching girl etc. responded lightly and politely, "Oh him. He's my father. He's giving the party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fanatic Moocher Crashes Gates of Most Deb Parties | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...Fitzpatrick explained gloomily that he is at a loss what to do now that the best parties are over. "I certainly can't lower myself to work, so, just between you and me, I'm making plans for crashing a Radcliffe dorm in the near future. It's going to be my greatest achievement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fanatic Moocher Crashes Gates of Most Deb Parties | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

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