Word: brackman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state revenue department agreed to pay Richter $1,000 so that he could continue his investigations for a month. Working with Item staffers, Richter tracked down several other leads, then went after bigger game. He got in touch with a patrolman named Louis Brackman, told him he wanted to buy police protection for a brothel he planned to open. In a series of tape-recorded meetings, Richter offered Patrolman Brackman $1,000 for himself and $2,000 for the bigwig in the police department who could make the fix. But after several meetings, Brackman finally reported the attempted bribe...
...Orleans' Mayor Morrison, whose police department was under fire, sided with the TP, whacked the Item for its "scheme ... for the obvious purpose of attempting to produce a scandal." But the Item had the last word. The police department fired Patrolman Brackman for failing to make a prompt report of the bribe offer. And last week the bar-brothel where the baby had been found lost its liquor license. Crowed Tommy Stern's Item: "The Picayune complained . . . that the revenue department investigation 'benefited the Item to the exclusion of other media of public expression.' Cleared...
...Promoter Alfred Stieglitz helped bring the Met's collection up to date, and the museum had bought 50-odd paintings in two years to fill some of the remaining gaps. Among its selections were a soapy surfscape by Frederick Waugh, a dusty studio composition by Robert Brackman, and a foggy abstraction by Theodores Stamos. The conservative Met had clearly done its backbending best to give contemporary art a fair, inclusive showing...