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...From the "Platform," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...giving advance notice of the new policy on the Du Mont network's TV panel show, The Big Issue, Hagerty found himself under fire. His attacker: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Washington Correspondent Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, who was still smarting over the Warren leak (TIME, Oct. 12). "The information order relates to the classification of documents," said Brandt, "[which] gave us very little trouble under the Truman Administration." Even if a document had been classified, he argued, newsmen had ready access to Government officials who would give the information they wanted. "The present Administration," said Brandt, "[seems...
With its front page still carrying stories about the Greenlease kidnaping case (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.), the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week printed a brief announcement on its comic page in place of two popular comic strips: "The Buz Sawyer and Steve Roper serial strips have been omitted. They will not be restored until after the kidnaping episodes in both strips, which may be offensive to many readers at this time . . ." After the announcement appeared, the paper was flooded with letters, many approving the P-D's move. But other readers were just as strong against dropping...
...Court convenes for the fall term, it will be without a Chief Justice." In Washington, where secret meetings with newsmen seldom stay secret long, every reporter soon knew that Brownell had leaked the story. Next day, after Ike had confirmed the news at his press conference, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's veteran Raymond Brandt, longtime specialist in Supreme Court affairs, got to his feet. "Pete" Brandt had been refused an interview with Brownell a few days earlier. Pointing his pencil menacingly at Ike, Brandt asked: "Is it going to be the policy of this Administration to leak such...
...Further research would have shown the truckers exactly what former Governor Smith did deny. He denied telling the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Missouri legislators had received money from truck lobbyists. But he did tell a legislative investigating committee that he understood from others that money had changed hands to defeat a bill to increase truck license fees...