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...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth,* Lord Rothermere, whose Associated Newspapers Ltd. publishes the Daily Mail, the Evening News, the Sunday Dispatch, the blatantly sensational Daily Sketch and a string of provincial newspapers. Combined circulation...
...Louis Post-Dispatch Crime Reporter Link was charged with first-degree murder after shooting his part-time handyman during an altercation about the burning of his cottage. The Hermann, Mo. jury accepted his plea of self-defense, acquitted...
Then there was the phony dispatch from U.S. Admiral Laurence Frost, chief of the Bureau of Naval Intelligence, which alarmed Indonesia by "revealing" U.S. backing of antigovernment rebels ("We will continue to give assistance to you through Taiwan and the Philippines"). Two other forgeries attributed to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree respectively, incensed the United Arab Republic by tipping off purported U.S. efforts to undermine the U.A.R.'s prestige in the Arab world. A forged secret annex to a British Cabinet paper gummed up relations between British trade unions and their...
Dismayed Ally. In 1958 there was a rash of 18 forgeries. One, an ingeniously planted U.S. diplomatic dispatch, purportedly came from Elim O'Shaughnessy, then chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Bonn. It counseled the backing of neofascist groups in West Germany that were known to be plumping for the return of Alsace-Lorraine to the fatherland. Though false, the "document" created real dismay at the Quai d'Orsai...
Died. Frank W. Taylor, 73, tough, crusading newsman who during a brilliant 27-year reign as managing editor of the old St. Louis Star-Times more than quintupled his paper's circulation, won the opposition Post-Dispatch's accolade as its professional "Public Enemy No. 1"; of a stroke; in Green...