Word: beichman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what sort of rudeness moved TIME to call PM "hyperthyroid" and refer to its "characteristic shrillness" in the very same press review, despite your admission that PM's reporter "Beichman was right?" Is it fair and in good taste to sling muddy insinuations at another publication without provocation...
...Beichman had affidavits. But to Boston reporters, Saltonstall said the Beichman story was "far from the truth...
...Governor was spluttery angry. Rising stiffly from his chair in the gilt-domed Massachusetts State House on Boston's famed Common, he surveyed the handful of newsmen gathered before him for his weekly press conference. Then he said to Reporter Arnold Beichman of New York's hyperthyroid PM: "I should think that was a stinking article and you get right out of this office . . . and stay out." A State trooper escorted Reporter Beichman, 5 ft. 5 and 137 lb., to the street...
Nevertheless, Beichman was right. A day after denying that such organized hoodlumism existed in Boston, Saltonstall ordered State police to investigate, prevent further outbreaks. He appointed a committee of Catholics, Protestants and Jews to advise him on the problem. And when PM gleefully referred to Boston as a city "where the people talk only to Beichman but Beichman can't talk to the Gov.," fair-minded Governor Saltonstall backtracked some more. He granted Reporter Beichman a 15-minute interview which began with a "Glad to see you," and included the admission "I had a rude awakening on Monday...