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Publisher Joseph Pulitzer began his career west of the Mississippi, at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but for years there have been grumblings about an Eastern bias in the coveted awards he endowed. In 1980 the Los Angeles Times made that claim at length in a report by its press writer David Shaw. Indeed, from 1972 through 1981, papers west of the Mississippi won only 17 of 112 Pulitzer Prizes...
...incident received national attention when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Sunday that Robert J. Myers, deputy commissioner of Social Security, had said the administration "changed" unemployment projections submitted in January by Eckstein's firm, Data Resources, Inc., to paint a more somber picture of the Social Security system's future...
Saying that the Post-Dispatch "is making something out of nothing as if we altered the books," Myers yesterday denied that the administration had ever attributed the figures directly to Data Resources...
...Gerald M. Boyd, Washington reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...American movement arose in 1935 to persuade U.S. athletes to boycott the Berlin Olympics. It lost. As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said at the time, it would be unfortunate if the Olympics were "dragged into the arena of political, racial or religious policy." That line is repeated almost exactly in 1980; it is no more valid now than...