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...best to ignore the scandal (TIME, March 11). When Beck returned from Europe last month, he at first refused to be interviewed by any newsman except the PI's Douglass Welch-who with P-I Editorial Writer Nard Jones has turned out a Horatio Algerish version of Beck's life struggle. Later, when the Times gleefully quoted Beck's admission that he had paid Welch and Jones a handsome advance out of his own (or the Teamsters') pocket, the P-I ran an embarrassed story explaining that the unpublished (and unsold) book was the reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rover Boys Rewarded | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Born. To Jinx Falkenburg, 27, radio & film actress (Two Latins from Manhattan Cover Girl), and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary, 35, Horatio Algerish man-about-town, ex-chief editorial writer of Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror, who stars with his wife on the radio program "Hi Jinx": their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Patrick. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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