Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. George Duncan Bauman (1912-April 14, 2003) was the publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from 1967 until 1984. He was born in Humboldt, Iowa, in 1912, the son of P. W. and Mae Bauman and grandson of A. H. Duncan. He attended Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois from 1930 to 1935, and began his work in journalism as a reporter for the Chicago Herald-Examiner. There, he was involved in the surrender of Robert George Irwin, wanted for the Easter weekend murder of girlfriend Veronica Gedeon, her mother, and a boarder. The Herald-Examiner had paid Irwin $5,000 for the exclusive rights to Irwin s confession and surrender to authorities.