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Fighting Father Dunne, an RKO film, premiered in St. Louis on May 11, 1948. The black-and-white movie depicted the life of Peter Joseph Dunne, a local priest, who founded the St.

Spencer Thornton Banks was a St. Louis artist and designer born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1912, the only child of Ellis and Elenora (Perkins) Banks. In 1926 the family moved to St.

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St. Louis writer and naturalist Josephine Johnson became the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1935 for her book Now in November, set on a Missouri farm during the Great Depression.

Route 66 was fully paved across Missouri by 1931.

Pippin Place was a legendary Gasconade River resort in the Missouri Ozarks.