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22 Columns. Day after day, the longest report on the Sander case was turned in by the Boston Post's John S. Mannion. A shorthand adept, he filed 8,000 words daily and in one edition alone the Post devoted 22 columns to the trial. Probably the best dispatches were being filed by big, bluff Joseph Driscoll, national correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who made no attempt to puff up sensations, merely wrote clearly and simply of what was going on.
In the news lulls, some reporters went farther afield. The United Press's Science Editor Paul Ellis even telephoned a Maine cancer specialist for a long-distance discussion of the case (which one paper headlined: WHAT IS DEATH?).
But, so far, none of the reporters in Manchester had come even close to equaling the memorable coverage of the Scopes trial by the Baltimore Evening Sun's H. L. Mencken. After 24 years, Mencken's stories still evoked the sights, the sounds, the sweat and the passion of the Scopes case as if it had happened last week.