Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Raymond Clapper examined the record of Kaiser's trip to Washington, noted that there was nothing in writing to insure Kaiser's plan a chance, decided that Washington had insulted the American spirit. Wrote he in white anger...
...TIME, July 6, there is a piece about Ray Clapper in which I am accused of some form of journalistic grand larceny by tacking my by-line on Ray's greatest beat-the nomination of Warren Harding in a "smoke-filled hotel room," out in Chicago...
...confess to being one of the luckiest, as well as the laziest, reporters who ever lived, but I have always drawn the line at larceny, especially from one of my fellow craftsmen. I particularly resent any intimation that I would practice banditry or burglary on Ray Clapper, whom I have always admired intensely and have regarded as one of the greatest newspapermen in the country...
...Clapper episode was not untypical. On the other hand, during my 30-odd years of newspapering, I have done a lot of pretty fair ghosting for other men and never felt that I was being robbed of any glory...
...able Journalist Jacobs, TIME's apologies for any implication that the appearance of his name on Clapper's scoop was the result of larceny. He tells well the story of what really happened...