Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Louis three weeks ago, a cartoonist and two editors of the Post-Dispatch were ordered to defend themselves against a citation for contempt of court because they criticized the dismissal of an extortion suit against a State Representative (TIME, March 25). Last week Circuit Judge Thomas J. Rowe slapped a $2,000 fine on the Post-Dispatch, dismissed the citation against Managing Editor Benjamin Harrison Reese, but hit Editorial Editor Ralph Coghlan with a fine of $200 and 20 days in jail, Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick with $100 fine and ten days...
...went Coghlan and Fitzpatrick in a sheriff's custody but were soon released on a writ of habeas corpus pending review of their case by the State Supreme Court. A silent spectator of these maneuvers was scholarly Irving Dilliard, editorial writer for the Post-Dispatch. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard last year (TIME, April 8), Dilliard is an authority on the Supreme Court, a good friend of Justice Felix Frankfurter...
Joker in it, to St. Louis newsmen, was that Ed Sullivan's column does not appear in the Star-Times, but in the Post-Dispatch. Another joker was that Columnist Sullivan got his names mixed: "Newspaper Veteran Larner" turned out to be news editor, William R. Miner...
Said Editor Miner with a straight face: "He [Sullivan] said he had only a few minutes-it was nice he could spend them in our office." Said the Post-Dispatch, preoccupied with weightier matters (see p. 56 : nothing...
...Board chose another Haverford graduate (1915), born on the campus during President Comfort's senior year: Felix Muskett Morley, Phi Beta Kappa, Rhodes Scholar, foreign correspondent, author and able editorial writer of the Washington Post. His father, Dr. Frank Morley, taught mathematics at Haverford and Johns Hopkins. His two brothers, Author Christopher (Kitty Foyle) and Book Publisher Frank, were also Rhodes Scholars-an alltime U. S. record for one family...