St. Louis “is as quietly aware of its standing as a leading educational and medical center as it is of the superiority of its Post-Dispatch and its unusually fine zoo, sometimes called the best in the world.
“There are times, though, when St. Louis likes its zoo better than it likes the Post-Dispatch — the animals there never go out of their way to raise a fuss the way Irving Dilliard, Ralph Coghlan, Daniel Fitzpatrick and other members of the Post-Dispatch so often do. As St. Louis frequently sees it, those fellows just won’t let things be ….
“‘I don’t know why I keep on reading the Post-Dispatch,’ a St. Louis grandmother said recently to one of the younger members of her family. ‘All it does is to make me fret! But I have to read it every day. The day doesn’t seem right unless I do.’”
Hamilton Basso, “St. Louis,” Holiday, October 1950
Roland Klose 