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...book, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, "reports" on Governor Paul A. Dever, Mayor Hynes, the condition of Massachusetts State police, and Boston itself. It includes several references unfavorable to the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener May Buy 'USA', Ignore Ban | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Mortimer and Lait have also collaborated on earlier works in the same vein, including "New York Confidential," "Washington Confidential," and "Chicago Confidential...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Say Book May Be Libelous, Bookstores in Square Stop Sale | 3/7/1952 | See Source »

...book, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, two New York Daily Mirror reporters, purports to be an expose on how "greedy groups and misguided ninnies" are making a nightmare of "man's great dream"--America. In one chapter it states that "Harvard is so gay you can hear the swish across the River Charles," and follows this closely with: "Girl queers breed at Wellesley and at many of the fine finishing schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Say Book May Be Libelous, Bookstores in Square Stop Sale | 3/7/1952 | See Source »

...Mortimer, in a telephone conversation with the CRIMSON last night said he and Lait would fight the ban in court if necessary. "We'll stand behind every thing we say," he said, "and we could have written a whole book about Harvard if we had wanted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Say Book May Be Libelous, Bookstores in Square Stop Sale | 3/7/1952 | See Source »

Editor Jack Lait of the New York Daily Mirror, who has been filling in for Columnist Walter Winchell during summer vacation, sounded an exasperated note this week with his "annual salute to the free-lance and staff press agents, whose crass ineptitude and stupidity, with few exceptions, amazes me anew each semester." Said Lait: "Here are people who are close to glamorous characters, whose sole business is exploiting them. So they come up with either dull trade items of bookings, bald raves or patent fakes tying up their clients with imaginary romances. They issue pusillanimous and preposterous puns and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Pushover | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

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