Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the FBI made its first arrests in the Brink's heist in Boston, Edgar Hoover's announcement, carried by both national wire services prematurely declared that "intensive investigation by the FBI for the past six years has resulted in the solution of the million dollar Brink's robbery. Of the eleven members of the gang responsible for the robbery, the FBI this morning arrested six." When word leaked to the Chicago Daily News that two of the six cops arrested for burglary in 1960 were ready to talk in exchange for lighter sentences, the paper refused...
...There has been a lot of discussion as to whether J. Edgar Hoover should be asked to resign from the FBI after his recent remarks about Martin Luther King and the Warren Report," wrote Syndicated Columnist Art Buchwald last week. "I can now reveal for the first time why President Johnson can't ask J. Edgar Hoover to resign. The reason is J. Edgar Hoover doesn't exist. He is a mythical person first thought up by the Reader's Digest.'" Buchwald went on to develop his theme: that even the name was a phony, attached...
...usual, Buchwald was only kidding. But his column, syndicated in 207 newspapers, reaches millions of readers, not all of whom saw through his whimsical jape. Soon newspapers all over were fielding telephone calls from anxious subscribers seeking assurance that there really was a J. Edgar Hoover, or angrily offering to prove Buchwald wrong. "Hundreds took Buchwald seriously, and thought he was just misinformed," reported the Austin (Tex.) Statesman...
...view of the Mississippi arrests, criticism directed against FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by civil rights groups could be expected to subside. Although Hoover had drawn such fire by an intemperate attack upon the Rev. Martin Luther King, he last week agreed to King's suggestion that the two talk over their differences. The 70-minute meeting in Hoover's Washington office seemed to cool the controversy and, reported King, led to "a much clearer understanding on both sides...
Spaghetti Reeds. There might have been no room at all for Aalto but for the enthusiasm of Edgar Kaufmann Jr., a Pittsburgh department-store magnate's son, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright and talked his father into building Wright's famous over-the-waterfall house at Bear Run, Pa. Kaufmann, who has an equal enthusiasm for Aalto, offered the Finn a commission to create a reception and conference room of his own for the I.I.E...