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...Paul Schoenstein, managing editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, the manuscript submitted by Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen was "a true blockbuster." By newspaper standards, to be sure, it was bulky. But last week, with a blast of trumpets, all 50,000 words landed on the pages of the Journal-American...
...been covered during Ruby's lengthy trial in Dallas. Moreover, most of its thunder had been stolen by the Dallas Morning News, which, only three weeks after the Warren Commission's June session with Ruby, front-paged a copyrighted paraphrase of the same testimony. Like Miss Kilgallen, the News declined to reveal its source. Another leak furnished Dallas' Times Herald, with the full transcript of Ruby's lie-detector test...
Blythin showed clearly that he was prejudiced against the defendant, Weinman concluded, and he should have disqualified himself. While the trial was under way, the presiding judge confided to Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, among others, that Sheppard was "guilty as hell." Contrary to settled law, he allowed the Cleveland police to testify that Sheppard had refused to take a lie-detector test, then failed to instruct the jury that they should disregard this testimony in their decision. Finally, even while the jurors were deliberating, they were allowed to phone their friends. No court official knew what was said...
...story about the death of Bud Ekins in your Oct. 25 issue leaves out too much about the man. It is ironic that he should be remembered for a round-the-world race with Dorothy Kilgallen and that his departure should serve as a kickoff for a story of her early exploits. Ekins looked upon the race as a lark. He had said to his associates at the Union-Star, "There is something more important to a working, writing newspaperman than a promotion stunt." Ekins was a brilliant and courageous reporter, and he held the principles of good journalism sacred...
...Ekins' victory could not tarnish the luster of the also-ran. The Hearst papers sent a covey of reporters west to greet Dorothy, among them her father, James Kilgallen. Everybody wept. "Waiting, waiting," sobbed Hearst Sob Sister Elsie Robinson in print: "What's the big idea-I'm not supposed to cry, just because I'm a newspaper woman . . . So, as I was saying-there came the Clipper and there came Dorothy-who looks, as I've said plenty of times before, exactly like Minnie Mouse...