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...machine found itself in need of a shining, bright-eyed new face. The reform forces of Governor Lloyd Stark were bearing down on Kansas City and threatening to put the corrupt police department under state control. Pendergast & Co. kicked out Onie Higgins (he later went to prison) and put Onie's diplomatic doorman behind Higgins' desk. Boyle was told to "clean up the town and keep it clean." Police Director Boyle followed his orders enthusiastically. In person, he raided gambling houses, broke up slot machines, closed up the red-light district, shut down saloons, and even tossed some...
...hour and a half later the course, which included Tallulah's rumbling rendition of Juliet's balcony scene on the hotel stairway, was over and memories were considerably freshened. One waiter muttered in stark wonder: "Nothing like this has ever happened here before...
...Stark's own version: "All I had to do was . . . hold my hat in my hand, and people whom I'd been cultivating for ten years and who trusted me would come and drop stories into...
...Note for Lewis. Many labor bigwigs did seek him out when they had important news. When they didn't, Stark flushed them out himself. Once, when reporters were vainly trying to get at John L. Lewis, holed up in his Washington headquarters during an executive board meeting, meek Lou Stark simply sent up a sharp note, and Lewis came right down...
...Stark believed in the validity of unions, but when the fledgling Newspaper Guild joined the C.I.O., Stark resigned, lest his impartiality be questioned. For the cumulative excellence of his reporting, he won a Pulitzer Prize...