Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Eugene Gleason, World-Telegram reporter, goes to work on an assignment which calls for exhaustive digging, nothing halts him," glowed the New York World-Telegram and Sun last June. "Time is of no consequence: he will work 24 hours without thought of rest. Weather never daunts him . . . No one awes him." The paper, about to start a new series by Reporter Gleason, listed some of his exploits: he had discovered the cause of a fatal 1956 explosion on a Brooklyn pier (improperly stored explosives); he had uncovered skulduggery in Manhattan's slum-clearance program; he had broken...
...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...
...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 looking." Moderator Susskind turned to Gene Gleason: "Can I ask you if the city...
...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...
Take Me Along. A nostalgic mood musical made from O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and made the brighter by Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse...