Word: lambert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other two plays are far less successful. The evening begins with The Long Voyage Home, a small story of a sailor's being shanghaied. Here, over-acting is at its highest, although Mikel Lambert, in a bit part as a barmaid, is excellent. John Baker plays a bartender with all the fervent cliches of a barber-shop tenor; Cyrus Hamlin, as the poor Swedish hero, is also exaggerated, but with an amiable naviete which suits his role surprisingly well. Jan Baltusnik, as the inevitable whore, adds occasional wistful effectiveness. The director, Edward McKirdy, shows pleasant and exceptional skill...
...bigger than a bed," grinned the Portland Oregonian's Reporter Wallace Turner last week. "We're just sitting around with fat, happy smiles on our faces." Reporters seldom earn so rich a right to sit and grin as have Wally Turner, 36, and his Oregonian teammate, William Lambert, 37. Since the day in February 1956 when Rackets Promoter James ("Big Jim") Elkins told the reporting team about his conspiracy with Teamsters Union officials to operate a profitable vice empire in Portland, Turner and Lambert had toiled heroically to document the story...
...roughest, riskiest exposé ever carried by the 107-year-old Oregonian. It earned them the American Newspaper Guild's 1957 Heywood Broun Award.* And last week, as a grand jury handed down indictments in Portland, as the mighty Dave Beck fell off his high wagon, Turner and Lambert reaped the even greater satisfaction of knowing that their unlikely tale of local corruption had unfolded into a major national story...
...International Brotherhood of Teamsters merely as part of a general inquiry into the abuse of union welfare funds, and, through Teamster Boss Dave Beck's longstanding income-tax troubles, probably would even have penetrated to the Teamster chieftain's big-time peccadilloes. But Turner and Lambert gave McClellan's men a slam-bang first act that stirred immediate nationwide support for the inquiry and propelled the investigation straight to Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster, key figure in the Portland scandal. From there it was a short hop into Dave Beck's plush Seattle parlor...
...Teamster organizer and ex-convict, as well as Multnomah County District Attorney William Langley and Sheriff (now Mayor) Terry Schrunk, both Teamster protégés. After listening to 70 hours of conversations between the key figures, tape-recorded by Elkins when he suspected a doublecross, Turner and Lambert spent three perilous months checking and double-checking the tale of the tapes. In the course of their investigation, they came to be called the Rover Boys by fellow newsmen, Fishface and Bug-Eyes by wary racketmen...