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...personal secretary the President took closemouthed Matthew J. Connelly, who had become his confidential secretary after last November's election. For press secretary, the job now held by round-faced, amiable Jonathan Daniels, there was talk of the veteran Charles G. Ross, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, or younger (45) Samuel Amos O'Neal, ex-Post-Dispatch reporter who is now public-relations director for the Democratic National Committee...
...Raymond Clapper had New Deal leanings that did not blind him to New Deal faults; his prose was not always exciting but his words were usually scrupulously fair. These qualities are shared by his good friend Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, 48, Washington bureau chief since 1934 for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, whose kettledrum voice frequently rattles the gimcracks on Franklin Roosevelt's desk when he rumbles out an embarrassing question at Presidential press conferences...
...last 20 years of his life secretaries read the paper to him). Financially, he inherited only one-tenth of the Pulitzer publishing estate. Brothers Ralph (now dead) and Herbert got the prize, the late, great New York World, and lost it. Joe got the backwater St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
This week, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., publisher of a newspaper that is now considered one of the nation's half-dozen best, invited his 1,152 staff members, and about a hundred Post-Dispatch alumni, to come to his 60th birthday party (champagne, breast of chicken, speeches...
Orson Welles, 29, precocious master of a number of trades-and jack of several more-apprenticed himself to a new one: newspaper columning. This week his first effort appeared in eleven papers (The New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit News, etc.), all of whom bought him sight unseen. What they got were 1) excerpts from Welles's favorite reading, the Farmer's Almanac; 2) handy hints about cooking; 3) cocksure remarks about foreign affairs; 4) personal chitchat...