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...City magazines (Washingtonian, Atlanta, Seattle, etc.) become a major force with exposé of investigative Reporter Harry Karafin in Philadelphia...
...Reporter Karafin watched out for the interests of the small guy as well as the big. Once, when a lonely, 51-year-old bachelor crippled with arthritis sued a dance studio for inveigling him into paying for 1,000 hours of lessons, Karafin wrote an incisive story about the case. Then Karafin called on the head of the company that owned the studio. Thereafter, Karafin wrote no more dance studio stories. A lawyer friend of Karafin's worked out a settlement by which the company repaid the bachelor a fraction of the money he had been charged. Karafin...
Philadelphia's reporters followed a trail of information and canceled checks to other public relations clients. The Pennsylvania Refuse Removal Association, for example, paid Karafin $1,000 after some of its members were charged by a federal grand jury with conspiring to fix prices (the members were found guilty anyway). And when the president of a Philadelphia loan firm was subpoenaed by a state senate investigating committee in 1962, he quickly signed on Karafin, paid him $12,000 over the next few years...
...When Karafin got wind that Philadelphia was planning a story on his activities, he filed for an injunction, charging that Fonzi and Walter had illegally obtained his tax returns. Philadelphia fought the suit, and published. Afterwards, a bank dealing in credit paper that had paid Karafin $6,000 a year fired Karafin as its public relations representative. Other businessmen who paid for Karafin's services now say they did so reluctantly. "I don't like to deal with Harry," said one client, "but he can do things for you. It's like castor...
...Inquirer, the reaction was one of red-faced embarrassment. The paper's management gave Karafin his severance pay-47 weeks worth-belatedly instructed all reporters to notify the company of any outside employment. One reporter who admitted doing freelance work for a public relations firm was warned to sever these ties immediately. And then "with profound sadness and bitter regret" the Inquirer published in this week's Sunday edition a ten-column story all about the mucky career of Star Reporter Harry J. Karafin...