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...requests for clemency from the likes of Billy Graham, Father Charles Dismas Clark (the "hoodlum priest"), state representatives, the former warden of San Quentin prison, the former county sheriff, a host of lawyers, sociologists and teachers. Two Chicago dailies, the American and the News, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have weighed in with strong editorial support for mercy. A Chicago TV station added dramatic impetus to the cause, airing a three-hour panel discussion direct from the jail-and featuring Crump himself. By unanimous agreement. 300 Chicago ministers sermoned their flocks on salvation for the convicted killer...
...showed the brightest red and was the best excuse for the Globe's campaign. Says the Globe's public-relations man, George Carson, "It's aimed strictly at radio and television. We want to sell the newspaper industry. We want to help all newspapers, even the Post-Dispatch.'' No one at the Globe minded, though, that the campaign struck a glancing blow at the P-D's radio and television affiliates...
Just before he flew off to Europe on a combined holiday and art-buying tour, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 49, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 378,293) and grandson of its founder, tarried long enough to take a phone call from his editorial cartoonist, Bill Mauldin (TIME cover, July 21). Mauldin's message was brief: he was leaving the P-D (which was recently added to the official White House reading list, replacing the New York Herald, Tribune's for a better-paying job on Marshall Field Jr.'s Chicago Sun-Times (circ...
What the President wanted to read instead of the Tribune, it turned out, was the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Notified that the White House wanted 22 copies delivered every day, the Post-Dispatch, a liberal paper whose sentiments closely approximate Kennedy's own, splashed the good word all over its news pages, but otherwise said nothing...
Died. Elzey Roberts Sr., 70, former publisher of the folksy, feisty St. Louis Star-Times, an aloof office tyro who inherited the Star a year after graduating from Princeton in 1915, bought the Times in 1932, and, after battling Joseph Pulitzer's bigger Post-Dispatch for three decades, unpredictably sold out to Pulitzer in 1951; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis...