Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orleans, the warfare is bitter between Publisher David ("Tommy") Stern's evening Item (circ. 103,153) and its well-entrenched competitors, the morning Times-Picayune and afternoon States (combined circ. 274,000). Two months ago in the heat of their running battle, the Times-Picayune scored a spectacular beat over the Item. The T-P broke a story that New Orleans detectives had collected $300,000 in a series of safe robberies. After the T-P story broke, the sheriff dragged the canals and bayous, found three stolen safes, including one taken from a local finance company...
...evidence resulted in 1) the indictment for burglary of a detective and an ex-detective, accused of planning a robbery with an ex-convict, and 2) the formation of a special citizens' committee to investigate police corruption. But in the T-P's hour of victory, Item Publisher Stern sprang his own police scandal...
Baby & Brothel. The Item got started on its story in February when a dark, mustached man named Jack Richter came to the city room on Union Street with a tip. Richter said that he knew of a saloon being used as a front for a brothel, where prostitutes were caring for a homeless baby who had been left on the bar. Next day the Item guided police on a raid and front-paged the story of the baby and arrest of four prostitutes and the brothel keeper. Richter then told the Item that he could supply other information. Richter...
...state revenue department agreed to pay Richter $1,000 so that he could continue his investigations for a month. Working with Item staffers, Richter tracked down several other leads, then went after bigger game. He got in touch with a patrolman named Louis Brackman, told him he wanted to buy police protection for a brothel he planned to open. In a series of tape-recorded meetings, Richter offered Patrolman Brackman $1,000 for himself and $2,000 for the bigwig in the police department who could make the fix. But after several meetings, Brackman finally reported the attempted bribe...
PROBER HIRED BY STATE REVENUE DEPARTMENT. EMPLOYED AS INVESTIGATOR FOR N. O. ITEM...