The arrival of a brilliant conductor was drowned out by labor discord. Now the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra begins a new season -- with some strings attached.
Back in the day, newsboys and a few -girls from competitive dailies used to race each other to deadline. The afternoon paper wanted to beat the morning rag, and vice versa. This was generally friendly jousting, mind you, which closed with the wordsmiths bellying up to the bar elbow to elbow, and buying each other a scotch-and-soda at day's end. (See: many a Bill McClellan column.) What'dya say, Joan Didion? Goodbye to all that. www.weisswrite.comSwingin' DickLast week, Dick Weiss and Deb Pete
Berger's on the P-D beat.Jerry Berger is out with a mini-profile of the one-and-only Emily Pulitzer, former owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and, by extension, his former boss.The ol' gossip actually gets Mrs. Pulitzer to respond to the oft-muttered criticism that she screwed the pooch by selling the paper to Iowa-based Lee Enterprises in 2005! Read on...
