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...explain the Bulletin's long, steadily strengthened grip on Philadelphia's readers. Most have given up with a too-easy revision of its slogan to: "Only in Philadelphia Would Nearly Everybody Read the Bulletin." The paper fits no familiar pattern for success. Unlike the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it almost never upsets an applecart, seldom even nudges one. It does not go in heavily for foreign correspondence. It is never spectacular...
...seemed that strange things were happening in the marble palace where once sat the solemn Nine Old Men. Solemnly, the staid New York Times deplored "the unstable Court . . . with its recent astonishing record of dissents . . . confusion and uncertainty." Sardonic, pink-faced Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch took a slightly merrier view. He pictured the Justices as a bunch of middle-aged gamins, pinking one another's skulls with legal slingshots...
...week's end it was announced that Marquis W. Childs, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Washington correspondent, would become a United Feature Syndicate Inc., columnist, would be offered to the list of papers that had carried Raymond Clapper...
...pastor was already a columnist when he went there. During its eleven years Everyday Religion appeared in 25 U.S. papers. Among them: the Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Press, Detroit Free Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette (which ran the column on the front page as a tribute to Dr. Newton, who once had a parish in the city...
Hannegan, happy with a profitable law practice, did not want the new job. But when St. Louis newspapers screamed their editorial heads off ("An affront to thousands," said the Post-Dispatch), he determined to get it. He did, after having been investigated from hell to breakfast. Collector Bob Hannegan tried to make tax-paying as painless as possible: he eliminated long waiting lines, instructed his clerks in the rudiments of courtesy. He went to night school to study taxation...