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Newsday (circ. 190,151) won the prize for its campaign exposing corruption and graft at New York's trotting tracks (TIME, Oct. 19). Four years ago, Newsday Managing Editor Alan Hathway, an alumnus of the New York tabloid News, started hammering at the Roosevelt Raceway, about half a mile from Newsday's plant, charged that Long Island's Building Trades Boss (A.F.L.) William De Koning was shaking down builders and track employees for close to $1,000,000 a year. Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed a special commission to clean up the raceways, and last month Labor...
...police protection force, maintenance employees). De Koning's lawyer angrily placed the blame for his client's trouble, and gave Newsday the accolade it had waited for. Said he: "The bitter personal hatred of Union Organizer William De Koning by the managing editor of Newsday, Mr. Alan Hathway, has resulted . . . in scurrilous attacks on [my client]. New York newspapers were finally influenced in the publication of the attack by their constant repetition in Newsday...
...Afraid of No One." Managing Editor Hathway's campaign against De Koning was hardly personal. Ever since he came to Newsday eleven years ago from the New York Daily News, Hathway has been deluged with tips and complaints about De Koning's rough, highhanded labor tactics. When De Koning ("I ain't afraid of no one") moved in to take over control of the raceway's employees, Hathway set his reporters to work. Newsday discovered that De Koning's union members, to hold their jobs at the track, were forced to kick back part...
...story didn't stop with De Koning. Newsday told how the Roosevelt owners, led by Racketeer Lucky Luciano's onetime lawyer, George Morton Levy, got control of the Yonkers track. In a byline copyright interview with Hathway, Lawyer Levy admitted his group had lobbied a law through the New York State legislature that prevented the Yonkers track from getting a harness-racing franchise, thus forcing it to sell control at a low price (estimated at $2,000,000) to the Roosevelt group. Among the Roosevelt-Yonkers owners: Nassau County Republican Boss J. Russel Sprague (who paid only...
...closed over the holiday. Then Reporter Bob Hollingsworth, who had stopped in a bar for a drink on his way home, caught a radio news bulletin. There had been a disastrous wreck on the Long Island Rail Road (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Hollingsworth tried frantically to locate Managing Editor Alan Hathway by phone, made four calls before he ran him down having dinner in a Chinese restaurant. By the time Hathway hustled back to the office, other staffers who had heard the news were also hurrying in and the list of wreck casualties was up to 50. Though the radio...