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That career was soon linked, in a way that made political history, to the career of another fast-rising California Republican: Alameda County District Attorney Earl Warren. Old J.R. always had been a staunch backer of young Earl Warren. Warren and Billy first met about the time Herbert Hoover was campaigning against Al Smith in 1928. Warren was struck by the political skill and vigor of the man 17 years his junior. Says Warren: "You had to admire him." The admiration was mutual. Knowland became a leading spirit among the young California Republicans who were later Warren's greatest...
...newspaper readers, the FBI is such a familiar story that J. Edgar Hoover has supplanted the vacuum cleaner as a household word for efficiency. Nevertheless, newspapers across the nation last week were breathlessly running-or preparing to run-serials on the FBI as if it were the most wanted story and the biggest since Grace Kelly took Monaco. Papers across the U.S. plugged an Associated Press series that started this week. The United Press had its own series on the FBI and the Chicago Tribune Press Service a third...
...first member newspaper in any territory that asked for it. When the book became a sellout, publishers who had been beaten to the A.P. series went to work to find another one. United Press assigned staffers to put together a six-part series, with a preface by Hoover, on the FBI's top cases, from Al Capone to Brink's. The only major wire service that ignored the story was Hearst's International News Service. When the Philadelphia Bulletin signed up for the A.P. series, the rival Philadelphia Inquirer turned out its own six-part saga, sold...
Competing Sagas. Though Whitehead and the A.P. complained to the Trib, Managing Editor Don Maxwell brushed them off, snapped: "We've covered the FBI as much as anyone. After all, most of the stories in the book were in our morgue, too." While editors scrapped, J. Edgar Hoover happily churned out "exclusive" quotes and prefaces for competing sagas, and let each editor boast that the FBI had "opened its files" wide...
Died. Vice Admiral (ret.) Wilson Brown, 74, U.S.N., naval aide to Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman, onetime superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1938-41), who led a task force in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, won a Distinguished Service Medal; in Groton, Conn...