Jazz club
The investigative journalist I. F. Stone wrote a column six days a week. Jazz club impresario Art D'Lugoff, then spelling his name Art Dlugoff, was a copy boy at the paper, as was future "Newsday" sports writer Stan Isaacs. Future magazine editor Clay Felker was a sportswriter for the paper. The city editor / managing editor, Tom O'Connor, who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in May 1952 without testifying or naming others, died of a heart attack at "The Daily Compass" offices while watching a televised broadcast of the Democratic National Convention on July 24, 1952.