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'''Edward Towner Leech''' (born [[June 17]], [[1892]] in Denver, Colorado; died [[December 11, [[1949]] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania} was a newspaper columnist and editor who sometimes wrote under the psuedonym '''B. U. L. Conner''', a comic character who also appeared in cartoons as a small man with a large nose.
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Leech graduated from the University of Colorado in [[1914]] and was a Delta Tau Delta. He married the former Pauline Bohanna, but they divorced in [[1929]] after having two children.
 
While Leech was editor of ''The Memphis Press'', he was jailed for his editorials lambasting the political machine headed by Mayor E. H. Crump. He was a columnist for the ''Houston Press'' in [[1925]] before coming to the ''[[Birmingham Post]]'' by [[1926]]. That Summer he penned, as Conner, a fanciful column entitled "A Love Story of Vulcan and Electra", narrating the romantic involvement between the [[Vulcan]] statue and his newly-installed counterpart, [[Electra]]. Before the end of the decade he was serving as publisher of the ''Post'', and led a media campaign against the [[Ku Klux Klan]] of the era.
 
Leech joined the staff of the ''El Paso Herald Post'' by [[1931]] and was editor of ''The Pittsburgh Press'' in the 1940s and hired illustrator Nat Youngblood. He helped the Press rise to a circulation of over 265,000, making it the most profitable daily in the Scripps-Howard chain.
 
Leech died at age 57 from complications following a surgical procedure.
 
==Publications==
* Leech, Edward Towner (1949) ''Utopia on the Rocks : A Report on British Socialism in Action.'' Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Press

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