Word: beene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To the young Associated Press reporter in Chicago, the whole business had an odd smell-or rather, lack of smell. It was during the blazing summer of 1933, and Ray Brennan, then 25 and covering one of his first big stories, was facing Swindler Jake ("The Barber") Factor, who claimed...
Ever since. Reporter Brennan has wondered if Factor was really kidnaped, or if his story was a hoax, aimed at taking the pressure off him elsewhere (Factor was wanted at the time in England on a swindling charge). Brennan also wondered-along with a lot of other newsmen and a...
Throughout his career as a hard-digging reporter, tough, growling Ray Brennan nursed his doubts about the Touhy conviction. Somehow the case kept crossing his path. In 1950, for example, having left the A.P. and gone to the Chicago Sun-Times, Brennan got hold of the secret transcripts of the...
For Reporter Brennan the book had been a matter of conscience ever since his nose for news told him that Jake the Barber had no B.O. Said he last week: "People are asking me why I am defending 'that gangster.' Look, here's a poor sucker who...
Looking at the aftermath of the steel strike, some economists last week were swinging around to the opinion that for all the harm it did the economy, it also may have done some long-range good. Along with others. Chamber of Commerce's Schmidt pointed out that the postwar...