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When Benjamin Harrison Reese became managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 13 years ago, he had to compete with a legend, as well as with the lively afternoon opposition (the Star-Times). The legend was the enormous reputation of his predecessor, lofty, autocratic Oliver Kirby ("O.K.") Bovard, one of the great managing editors of his time. What made matters worse was that Bovard, before he stalked out of the P-D (at the end of a long disagreement with Publisher Joseph Pulitzer), had made it clear that he thought City Editor Ben Reese something less than a worthy...
...Lash. As P-D city editor for 25 years, big (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Ben Reese had built up a crack staff by painstaking direction and a relentless, daily wielding of the lash on staffers who failed to give him what he wanted ("Tell him the Post-Dispatch wants to know, and don't come back without the story"). He had developed many a bannerline expose through his dogged, relentless pursuit of the smallest story clue, spent as much as $50,000 to break a hot story. In 1936, for example, by sending a dozen reporters...
...admissions from him. Other members of the shifting, four-man panel come from the top drawer of the U.S. press, and many a bigwig has winced under the volley of questions from such reporters as the New York Times's "Scotty" Reston, Raymond Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, U.P.'s Merriman Smith, and Columnists Marquis Childs and Drew Pearson...
More than 100 papers and radio stations gave it a play (HARVARD SEEN DRAFT SOURCE; MOM WANTS SIMPERING HARVARDS IN SERVICE). New York papers used it, all but one knocking out the word "purportedly." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch played the story on Page...
...proved it by graduating from the University of Missouri a Phi Beta Kappa, then tried the newspaper business for three years, on small Midwestern papers and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. When the University of Missouri set up its new journalism school, Charlie Ross went back to teach, stayed at it for nine years before he went back to the P-D and a top-drawer job as head of its new Washington bureau...