From the St Louis Post-Dispatch Sept 17,1975
Jack Alexander Dies; Once Reporter Here
Jack Alexander, a former St. Louis reporter and one of three brothers who attained top editorial positions on national publications, died today in a hospital at St. Petersburg, Fla. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Alexander retired in 1964 as senior editor of the Saturday Evening Post. For more than two years before that he had been working on a reduced schedule, traveling in Europe and writing occasional stories for the magazine.
His retirement was the result of increasing effects of Parkinson's disease. He had been in ill health for many years. His death was attributed to a massive stroke.
Mr. Alexander was from Missouri and spent his childhood in Wheaton and Vinita Park. After graduating from St. Louis University High School and St. Louis University, he entered newspaper work, breaking in on the old St. Louis Star.
He joined the Post-Dispatch staff in 1923, remaining for seven years before moving to New York. He covered municipal baseball and wrestling and traveled with the old St. Louis Browns of the American League.
He served also as a reporter and, years later, recalled that he had worked under five editors and had worked in nearly every branch of the news department of the paper.
After moving to New York, Mr. Alexander worked first for the City News Bureau and then as a rewrite man for the New York News. His work at that paper caught the eye of magazine editors and brought a job offer from the New Yorker. He accepted, and a few years later moved to the Saturday Evening Post.
Mr. Alexander's specialty was the gathering of material for and the writing of detailed, sparkling personality sketches of national and international figures. Thirty years ago he wrote a Saturday Evening Post article on Alcoholics Anonymous, which has been credited with assisting the then small organization in developing into a major force in combating alcoholism.
In addition to his wife, the former Anita Mueller of St. Louis, he is survived by two brothers. The eldest, E. Roy Alexander, is a former Post-Dispatch reporter and assistant city editor, who left in 1939 to become managing editor of Times Magazine. He retired as executive editor. The other is Rev Cal Alexander, a Jesuit priest who formerly was editor of Jesuit Missions, a monthly magazine. Father Alexander was a reporter for the Star and Globe-Democrat before he became a priest.
Funeral services will be in St. Louis at a time to be in arranged. Burial will be in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Jack Alexander Dies; Once Reporter Here
Jack Alexander, a former St. Louis reporter and one of three brothers who attained top editorial positions on national publications, died today in a hospital at St. Petersburg, Fla. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Alexander retired in 1964 as senior editor of the Saturday Evening Post. For more than two years before that he had been working on a reduced schedule, traveling in Europe and writing occasional stories for the magazine.
His retirement was the result of increasing effects of Parkinson's disease. He had been in ill health for many years. His death was attributed to a massive stroke.
Mr. Alexander was from Missouri and spent his childhood in Wheaton and Vinita Park. After graduating from St. Louis University High School and St. Louis University, he entered newspaper work, breaking in on the old St. Louis Star.
He joined the Post-Dispatch staff in 1923, remaining for seven years before moving to New York. He covered municipal baseball and wrestling and traveled with the old St. Louis Browns of the American League.
He served also as a reporter and, years later, recalled that he had worked under five editors and had worked in nearly every branch of the news department of the paper.
After moving to New York, Mr. Alexander worked first for the City News Bureau and then as a rewrite man for the New York News. His work at that paper caught the eye of magazine editors and brought a job offer from the New Yorker. He accepted, and a few years later moved to the Saturday Evening Post.
Mr. Alexander's specialty was the gathering of material for and the writing of detailed, sparkling personality sketches of national and international figures. Thirty years ago he wrote a Saturday Evening Post article on Alcoholics Anonymous, which has been credited with assisting the then small organization in developing into a major force in combating alcoholism.
In addition to his wife, the former Anita Mueller of St. Louis, he is survived by two brothers. The eldest, E. Roy Alexander, is a former Post-Dispatch reporter and assistant city editor, who left in 1939 to become managing editor of Times Magazine. He retired as executive editor. The other is Rev Cal Alexander, a Jesuit priest who formerly was editor of Jesuit Missions, a monthly magazine. Father Alexander was a reporter for the Star and Globe-Democrat before he became a priest.
Funeral services will be in St. Louis at a time to be in arranged. Burial will be in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
From the St Louis Post-Dispatch Sept 17,1975
Jack Alexander Dies; Once Reporter Here
Jack Alexander, a former St. Louis reporter and one of three brothers who attained top editorial positions on national publications, died today in a hospital at St. Petersburg, Fla. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Alexander retired in 1964 as senior editor of the Saturday Evening Post. For more than two years before that he had been working on a reduced schedule, traveling in Europe and writing occasional stories for the magazine.
His retirement was the result of increasing effects of Parkinson's disease. He had been in ill health for many years. His death was attributed to a massive stroke.
Mr. Alexander was from Missouri and spent his childhood in Wheaton and Vinita Park. After graduating from St. Louis University High School and St. Louis University, he entered newspaper work, breaking in on the old St. Louis Star.
He joined the Post-Dispatch staff in 1923, remaining for seven years before moving to New York. He covered municipal baseball and wrestling and traveled with the old St. Louis Browns of the American League.
He served also as a reporter and, years later, recalled that he had worked under five editors and had worked in nearly every branch of the news department of the paper.
After moving to New York, Mr. Alexander worked first for the City News Bureau and then as a rewrite man for the New York News. His work at that paper caught the eye of magazine editors and brought a job offer from the New Yorker. He accepted, and a few years later moved to the Saturday Evening Post.
Mr. Alexander's specialty was the gathering of material for and the writing of detailed, sparkling personality sketches of national and international figures. Thirty years ago he wrote a Saturday Evening Post article on Alcoholics Anonymous, which has been credited with assisting the then small organization in developing into a major force in combating alcoholism.
In addition to his wife, the former Anita Mueller of St. Louis, he is survived by two brothers. The eldest, E. Roy Alexander, is a former Post-Dispatch reporter and assistant city editor, who left in 1939 to become managing editor of Times Magazine. He retired as executive editor. The other is Rev Cal Alexander, a Jesuit priest who formerly was editor of Jesuit Missions, a monthly magazine. Father Alexander was a reporter for the Star and Globe-Democrat before he became a priest.
Funeral services will be in St. Louis at a time to be in arranged. Burial will be in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Jack Alexander Dies; Once Reporter Here
Jack Alexander, a former St. Louis reporter and one of three brothers who attained top editorial positions on national publications, died today in a hospital at St. Petersburg, Fla. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Alexander retired in 1964 as senior editor of the Saturday Evening Post. For more than two years before that he had been working on a reduced schedule, traveling in Europe and writing occasional stories for the magazine.
His retirement was the result of increasing effects of Parkinson's disease. He had been in ill health for many years. His death was attributed to a massive stroke.
Mr. Alexander was from Missouri and spent his childhood in Wheaton and Vinita Park. After graduating from St. Louis University High School and St. Louis University, he entered newspaper work, breaking in on the old St. Louis Star.
He joined the Post-Dispatch staff in 1923, remaining for seven years before moving to New York. He covered municipal baseball and wrestling and traveled with the old St. Louis Browns of the American League.
He served also as a reporter and, years later, recalled that he had worked under five editors and had worked in nearly every branch of the news department of the paper.
After moving to New York, Mr. Alexander worked first for the City News Bureau and then as a rewrite man for the New York News. His work at that paper caught the eye of magazine editors and brought a job offer from the New Yorker. He accepted, and a few years later moved to the Saturday Evening Post.
Mr. Alexander's specialty was the gathering of material for and the writing of detailed, sparkling personality sketches of national and international figures. Thirty years ago he wrote a Saturday Evening Post article on Alcoholics Anonymous, which has been credited with assisting the then small organization in developing into a major force in combating alcoholism.
In addition to his wife, the former Anita Mueller of St. Louis, he is survived by two brothers. The eldest, E. Roy Alexander, is a former Post-Dispatch reporter and assistant city editor, who left in 1939 to become managing editor of Times Magazine. He retired as executive editor. The other is Rev Cal Alexander, a Jesuit priest who formerly was editor of Jesuit Missions, a monthly magazine. Father Alexander was a reporter for the Star and Globe-Democrat before he became a priest.
Funeral services will be in St. Louis at a time to be in arranged. Burial will be in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
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