When the late, public-spirited Walter Simpson Dickey of Kansas City, rich manufacturer of brick & clay products, bought the Kansas City Journal and Post ten years ago, he announced that he had sold all his stockholdings in public service corporations and quasi-public enterprises. His reason: no newspaper publisher could effectively serve his Public if he has any share in the "Interests." Had Publisher Dickey been alive last week, readers of the Journal-Post might not have seen what they did: an announcement that Henry Latham Doherty, crafty, bearded president of far-flung Cities...
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