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...ease the lot of the Pulitzer juries, the entrants rarely hide behind false modesty. "It is impossible to estimate the proverbial blood, sweat and tears which went into this undertaking," said the Scranton Tribune in 1959, submitting the work of Tribune Reporter J. Harold Brislin, whose stories helped send ten union leaders to jail. "The most remarkable mission in postwar journalistic history," read the blurb on the 1956 entry of the Hearst Task Force which had gone to Russia and interviewed Khrushchev and missed the big story of the year, the downfall of Premier Georgy Malenkov. The Pulitzer Advisory Board...
...biggest news breaks did not fall to the Times. They fell to its morning rival, the Republican Tribune (circ. 40,733). When Teamster Steward Paul Bradshaw went on trial for the dynamiting in 1955, a tough, aggressive Tribune reporter named J. Harold Brislin interviewed him and wrote a story after his conviction asking: "Will Bradshaw talk?" Four months later, out on bail and embittered by the way his union pals had let him take the rap, Paul Bradshaw decided at last to talk-to Harold Brislin...
Vinegar in the Blood. In a series of surreptitious midnight conferences at Brislin's house, Bradshaw and girl friend sang out the story of the dynamiting and allowed the newsman to copy tape-recorded conversations by the four other goons who had done the job. With affidavits from Bradshaw and girl friend in hand, Brislin turned his story in to the Tribune city desk and handed over his evidence to the district attorney. Within three days all four dynamiters had con fessed. Brislin's continuing exclusive sto ries in the Tribune and a sustained editorial barrage...
Convinced that the committee and the press have "still only scratched the sur face" in Scranton, Newsman Brislin (whose city editor says he has "vinegar in his blood") last week was digging deeper into the story that he has followed for 25 months. Over at the Times, Tom Murphy was banging away with new editorials on an issue that he spotted and tackled more than three years...
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