O'Toole, who still has pals from those days, one now the assistant editor of the Times of London, learned all phases of newspapering, from pressroom to pub-crawling.
Wesbecker eventually ended up in a pressroom in an annex, where he killed himself with a shot under his chin, Dotson said.
The job cuts will allow the Post-Dispatch to reduce pressroom labor costs significantly, the company said.
The schemes became common knowledge among pressroom workers and supervisors, but upper management was never informed of it, the Courier-Journal reported.
I didn't go in the pressroom or stay around the presses," he said.