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Staffers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch puzzled last week over a change in chairs. Illinois-born Irving Billiard, 52, a 30-year P-D veteran, stepped down as chief of the editorial page to become an editorial writer. His replacement: Editorial Writer Robert Lasch, 50, former chief of the Chicago Sun-Times editorial page, who was brought to the paper by Billiard seven years...
...Behymer, 86, veteran (since 1888) reporter and feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch whose "cornfield journalism" has been a Midwest institution for 68 years; in Alton, Ill. A little (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) wiry man with unruly grey hair, "Mr. Bee" went to the P-D ten years after its founding (1878) by the first Joseph Pulitzer, became a standard prop at back-country murder trials and hillbilly feuds, stamped his copy with his own brand of homespun humor. ("Methuselah lived 969 years and all they said about him was that he died. But what...
...actually, the journalistic ingredients they had in common were more important than those that set them apart. Both the Tribune and the P-D-each in its own way-chose to be independent to a fault. The Trib rarely went along with any political party (see below), while the P-D's editorial support swung from Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932) to Alf Landon (1936), back to Roosevelt (1940 and 1944), to Dewey (1948) and Adlai Stevenson...
Unchained. The Globe-Democrat's Owner Ray wanted a buyer who would not change the pro-Republican paper radically and who would not sell it eventually to the thriving (daily circ. 387,398, Sunday 460,501) evening St. Louis Post-Dispatch, thereby giving the P-D a monopoly. Newhouse filled the bill. The day he took over, Newhouse announced that Ray would stay on as publisher. He also said there would be no major staff changes and that the paper's present editors, executives and 1,200 employees will continue to run the daily. But Newhouse expects...
...Gangsters. Finally, a grand jury launched an investigation which resulted in indictments of 15 A.F.L. leaders for racketeering. When the Justice Department's interest in continuing the investigation seemed to be waning, the P-D prodded the case to life again. A second grand jury went into action, confirmed more of the P-D's expose. Early this year four union racketeers were convicted, and sentenced to from ten to twelve years in prison. Altogether, 34 others have been indicted for everything from fraud and racketeering by extortion to perjury...