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Late last month Winchell got his chance: Chandler's was named as one of 13 New York restaurants which the OPS accused of violating price ceilings. Hearst's Journal-American TV Columnist Jack O'Brian lent Colleague Winchell a helping hand with thinly disguised items about a certain "fishface" disk jockey, whom he accused of every crime from welshing on his debts to collecting graft to finance a trip to Europe...
Meanwhile, Hearst's Journal-American interviewed Mrs. Bernie by phone and broke out an "exclusive": BERNIE WIDOW CALLS ROSE'S STORY 'LIES.' Mrs. Bernie, said the Journal, wanted to remind Billy of his days as a syndicated columnist. Then Eleanor was the model of a faithful wife and often the star of his column. "Billy knows as well as I do that Eleanor is a fine girl. She was a wonderful wife and he told everybody how great she was. He wrote it in his columns . . . and he knows she is still the same girl...
...after the hearing, the New York Journal-American ran a Page One story headlined: POST EDITOR ADMITS HE WAS YOUNG RED. WECHSLER TIES BARED...
Other panel members joined in. Edward P. Doyle, news editor of the Journal-American, which had touched off the row, said that he agreed entirely with Alicia Patterson. Editor Canham later pointed out that he had "argued every day for a week" to prevent Wechsler from being kicked off. But Canham did not feel strongly enough to resign as moderator, since he thinks that "the case is not as clear-cut as it might be, and I'm not sure the sponsor does not have some rights." To most newsmen, however, it was clear-cut: a clear-cut example...
Proving Ground. Bill Hearst's home paper, the New York Journal-American, is a testing ground for the changes. Its front-page and inside make-up is being transformed and its editorials have taken a sharp turn toward more temperate writing, more attention to local issues. But nowhere is the new broom more evident than in the American Weekly, Sunday magazine supplement for the chain. As a result of an overhauling that has been in the works for eight months, the weekly has been completely revamped and modernized (TIME...