Word: greenspun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scourge of Glitter Gulch has rarely been that reticent. Born in Brooklyn 65 years ago, Herman Milton Greenspun hit Las Vegas after a World War II Army hitch and bought an ailing Vegas newspaper. He quickly won national prominence-and circulation-with slashing attacks on Senators Joseph McCarthy and Patrick McCarran, whose Red baiting offended him. McCarran died in 1954 in Hawthorne, Nev., just after giving a speech in which he exclaimed: "Greenspunism must be defeated!" Since then, the whip of Greenspunism has been laid mostly on local figures, including Howard Hughes, who left for the Bahamas in 1970. Greenspun...
...years as publisher of the stormy Las Vegas Sun (circ. 45,000), Hank Greenspun has been a party to more than 100 lawsuits, a feat that may well make him the most sued man in U.S. journalism. This year alone, ten wrathful readers have taken him to court-from a local councilman whose voting record Greenspun disliked to an acupuncturist the Sun labeled as unqualified to practice...
Though the publisher wins most of those lawsuits, his morning daily seems to embody an old frontier reflex: shoot first and ask questions later. While Greenspun guns down local pols in his front-page column, "Where I Stand," his 25 reporters are out digging up screaming exposés in The Front Page tradition. Just before last fall's elections, the paper exposed as a fraud the mail-order gold-and-silver business of Gubernatorial Candidate James Ray Houston (he lost). Last week the Sun revealed how Greenspun and one of his reporters tracked down the lookout...
Green Safe. People also come to Nevada to steal from Greenspun. In 1971 he told a White House aide that he knew about a $100,000 Nixon campaign contribution from Howard Hughes. Not long after, the White House plumbers apparently tried to crack the green Meilink safe in Greenspun's office. After that break-in was disclosed in the Nixon tape transcripts last year, Greenspun became the only journalist to testify before the Senate Watergate committee. The object of the breakin, he theorizes, was probably a sheaf of handwritten memos from Howard Hughes to a subordinate. Yet Greenspun mysteriously...
...calling him a thief. For their part, Hughes' employees kept the CIA informed about the activities of White House Plumber E. Howard Hunt. Among other things, they reported that he had interviewed ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard and planned to rifle the files of Las Vegas Publisher Hank Greenspun in search of information that might embarrass Democratic Presidential Candidate Edmund Muskie. At the time, ex-CIA Agent Hunt was also working for Robert R. Mullen & Co., a now defunct public relations firm in Washington that provided cover for CIA agents in Europe and the Far East. The firm was headed...