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...HANK GREENSPUN, a blustering, cantankerous sometime politician and newsman, came down from Nevada last January to pick the bones of the Arizona Journal and, failing in that mission, bought a successful shopping throwaway, the Phoenix Sun, as a kind of consolation prize. Greenspun, who also publishes the Las Vegas Sun, hopes to have his Phoenix Sun rising daily before the end of the year...
...Service, demanded payment of some $200,000 in back taxes and penalties. Showing remarkable patience, the IRS stayed action-even advanced the paper $800 for an emergency supply of paper and ink-while Morrison went hunting for prospective buyers. But although he located a few-among them Publisher Hank Greenspun of the Las Vegas, Nev., Sun-none seemed overeager to buy a paper that is $1,200,000 in hock...
...Hank Greenspun, 52, freewheeling publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, is a New Yorker who arrived in Las Vegas in 1946, became a publicity man for Mobster Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo Hotel, later bought 1% of the Desert Inn. In 1950 Greenspun pleaded guilty to running arms to Israel, was fined $10,000, finally had his civil rights restored last year by President Kennedy. He long used the Sun in a vendetta against the late Senators Pat McCarran and Joseph McCarthy, once wrote a column in which he called McCarthy a "disreputable pervert." In taking on Sawyer, Greenspun would...
...oldest and noisiest foes of Senator Joe McCarthy is Herman M. Greenspun, 45, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun (circ. 12,437). In the columns of the Sun, "Hank" Greenspun has repeatedly called McCarthy "a secret Communist" and a "disreputable pervert." Reluctant to sue, and thus give currency to Green-spun's charges, but goaded to do something, McCarthy's office last year asked the Post Office Department whether the Sun should lose its second-class mailing privileges (TIME, April...
...federal grand jury indicted Greenspun on charges that he violated postal laws by mailing newspapers carrying a column "tending to incite murder or assassination" of McCarthy. Sample lines from the Greenspun column offered in evidence: "Senator Joe McCarthy has to come to a violent end . . . The chances are that McCarthy will be laid to rest at the hands of some poor, innocent slob whose reputation and life he has destroyed through his ... smear technique." Last week, after a five-day trial, a jury deliberated only two hours and 45 minutes, found Greenspun not guilty. Jurors said later that the Government...