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...Scripps-Howard tabloid Washington Daily News had the job; it hired Lewis and he quickly made a mark as a byline reporter. In 1953, when he began looking into the records of Government employees who had been fired as security risks, he came across the unpublicized case of Abraham Chasanow, suspended by the Navy Department (TIME, May 10, 1954). Reporter Lewis wrote a five-part series on Chasanow's troubles, stirred up so much interest that the Navy reviewed the case, cleared Chasanow. The series won Tony Lewis the $500 annual American Newspaper Guild Heywood Broun Award for enterprising...
Lewis' Chasanow series had just won the Pulitzer Prize for the best "national reporting" of the year.* After he winds up his affairs on the News, Reporter Tony Lewis, 28, one of the youngest newsmen ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, plans to become a Washington correspondent for the New York Times...
...Abraham Chasanow, an $8,360-a-year employee of the Navy Hydrographic Office just outside Washington, had lived under the shadow of a doubt ever since July 29, 1953, when he was suspended from his job. One security board refused to believe the charge that he was a Communist sympathizer. A higher board reversed the ruling and ordered him fired. When the Chasanow case broke into print (TIME, May 10), Assistant Secretary of the Navy James H. Smith Jr. ordered the case reopened...
Last week Smith called a press conference and made a handsome apology to Chasanow, restoring him to duty with back pay. A Navy statement said: "The pattern of Mr. Chasanow's life portrays an above-average loyal American citizen." The Navy, Smith said, had been a "little naive" in swallowing everything that poison-tongue informants had said about Chasanow, who had made enemies (as well as scores of friends) in the intense local politics of Greenbelt, Md., where he lives. Said Chasanow: "It seems like I woke up from a bad dream. The sun is shining. The birds...
Last month Assistant Navy Secretary James H. Smith Jr. informed Employee Chasanow that the Navy's Security Appeal Board had reversed the lower board, found him unfit for service. Smith said that, from his own review of the case, he agreed. Chasanow, refusing to give up, demanded a new hearing. This week the Navy reopened the case of Chart Distributor Abraham Chasanow, civic leader...