Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shame. Gleason's troubles began when he appeared as a participant on a television panel show, David Susskind's Open End, with his World-Telegram partner Fred J. Cook. Teamed with Gleason on numerous expose stories, Cook, 49, a World-Telegram veteran of 15 years and a sometime author (The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss), did most of the writing. Husky, broad-shouldered Gene Gleason did most of the reportorial digging. They worked together on the 1956 slum-clearance expose, collaborated again this year on an extracurricular writing assignment for the Nation. Titled "The Shame of New York...
Midway in the television show, Moderator Susskind turned to Fred Cook with a question that he had been primed by a Nation pressagent to ask: "Did you in your research [on the 1956 slum-clearance series] ever encounter a lack of cooperation, or bribes?" Yes indeed, said Cook. Thereupon he proceeded to tell how, during the investigations, a "high city official" had offered Gleason $75 to $100 a week for laying off. "We can put your wives on the payroll," the city official supposedly said to Gleason, "and you won't have to do anything for it, just stop...
...Answers. Within hours of the Open End show, as Cook and Gleason must have anticipated, New York District Attorney Frank S. Hogan began an investigation into the Cook-Gleason bribery charges. Summoned, with Cook, to Hogan's office, Gene Gleason went in smiling confidently, emerged shaken and white-faced. Excerpts from his testimony...
...Touhy conviction. Somehow the case kept crossing his path. In 1950, for example, having left the A.P. and gone to the Chicago Sun-Times, Brennan got hold of the secret transcripts of the testimony before the Kefauver crime-investigating Senate committee made by the then Democratic candidate for Cook County sheriff. (Brennan was indicted for impersonating a federal employee, but the charges against him were dropped.) The testimony, as printed in the Sun-Times, showing that from gambling the candidate had become the "richest cop in the world," led to his defeat. The candidate: Daniel ("Tubbo") Gilbert, onetime Chicago police...
...group braved zero weather to parade signs saying, "Put Rocky in the Kitchen and Cook Mr. K's Goose," and "Nobody's for Rocky but the People...