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Last week, gathering manpower for his campaign, he staged a staff raid on the Examiner. Hearstlings Edward W. McQuade, city editor; Alvin Hyman, top rewrite man, and Richard V. Hyer, legman specializing in crime reporting, walked out to go to work for Paul Smith's Chronicle. The rattled Examiner hastily scattered pay raises to keep the rest of its staff. But Smith boasted that his new recruits had not changed sides for money. "They simply are going to work for an honest newspaper," he cracked, "so they can live with themselves and their children...
CROOKED SHADOW-Kurt Steel-Little, Brown ($2). Private sleuth Henry Hyer falls foul of a Long Island Nazi gang who framed his young assistant for murder. The plot's intrigues are given a sombre speciousness by current events and nimble writing...
JUDAS, INCORPORATED-Kurt Steel-Little, Brown ($2). While tracking down the murderer of a Connecticut industrialist, case-hardened Hank Hyer comes between two rival strikebreaking agencies. Tops for the tough type...
Manhattan's Daily Advertiser advertised the U. S.'s first panorama show (Jerusalem) in 1790, "at Lawrence Hyer's Tavern, between the Gaol and the Tea Water Pump; the sight is most brilliant by candlelight." The U. S. panorama fad reached its peak in the 1850's, faded fast...
JULIEN C. HYER...