Underlying all this was his intense belief In the peoples right to know. as requisite to Informed selfgovernment at every level. He demonstrated this countless times with long and exhaustive news investigations and burning editorial crusades. He was as ready to take up the unpopular cause of an unknown GIs immigrant war bride. unjustly held on Ellis Island. as to deal with some prominent subject currently talked about by everyone. He preferred to be an editor and was widely acclaimed as one. As he said. his heart was "more at home in the editorial sanctum than in the counting room." But he was vigilant to see that the PostDispatch was financially successful because he knew that if its survival was in doubt it could not be independent and bold on its editorial page or strong and probing in its news columns.
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