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...Louis newsmen agreed that the Star-Times would not soon see Taylor's like again. He had built the Star-Times from the anemic 30,000 circulation of the old Star to its present 167,400, made it a lusty rival of the powerful Post-Dispatch, and in doing so had become a newspaper legend. Managing editor since 1914, he made his reputation in the early '20s, when he exposed the notorious Hogan gang, the Egan Rats, the bloody Italian gang called the Green Ones...
...Times Cartoonist Jacob Burck for his cartoon "If I Should Die Before I Wake," depicting a child praying in a bomb-shattered room; 53-year-old former College Professor Leonard Bacon, for his book of verse Sunderland Capture; Biographer Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its campaign against smoke nuisance in St. Louis. To the New York Times went a special citation for "the public educational value of its foreign-news reports...
...show of the most popular form of art in the U.S.: newspaper cartooning. Reeves Lewenthal's up-&-coming Associated American Artists Gallery (TIME, April 21) picked for its show one of the best and most widely reproduced editorial cartoonists in the U.S.: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick...
...studying algebra and history. In Chicago he found he could make money turning out comic strips for the Chicago Evening News at $1 apiece. Before he was 21 the Evening News had hired him to do front page cartoons. A year later he heard that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's cartoonist had quit, got the job, started out with a cartoon attacking the old-fashioned wooden railroad coach by depicting one as a coffin on wheels. Today, after more than 27 years with the Post-Dispatch, sandy-haired, white-mustached Fitzpatrick is one of the four top-rank...
Boss Dickmann shook his head, blamed it on the Willkie "backwash" that had got Republicans so stirred up that they could not stop. But the Post-Dispatch saw a defeat for the Machine-the Machine that had registered voters who did not exist, had received payment for public service that it did not perform, and finally had tried to seat in the Governor's chair a man who had not been elected...