Word: legman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that flat statement, merely claimed that he had mentioned the matter to City Editor Norton Mockridge "in the course of a long lunch" several weeks after the bribe was allegedly offered. But Mockridge denied ever having heard of the sorry business-and at that point Rewriteman Fred Cook followed Legman Gene Gleason right off the World-Telegram payroll...
...passion for digging up evidence and that scowling aggressive courtroom demeanor that eventually forces a confession on the witness stand. Like Gardner, Burr feels that the show is brightened with moral uplift-the murders are almost always offstage and the girls are not overly shady Perry's legman is Paul Drake, a suave, civilized type played by Bill Hopper, Columnist Hedda Hopper's son. District attorneys across the country are beginning to cry havoc: it just does not seem right for Perry & Co. never to lose a case...
...married James Doyle Phillips, another Stateside immigrant and proprietor of a modest printing and translating office. (Their daughter Marta is now a dancer in Madrid.) In 1931, with insurgent winds blowing all over Cuba, the Times took Phillips on as its Havana correspondent, and Ruby became his legman. When he was killed in an auto accident in 1937, Ruby took over his job. She has reigned since as the only resident U.S. newspaper correspondent in Cuba (although U.P.I, and A.P. maintain one-man bureaus), developing a reputation for balanced, if colorless reporting...
Caught in the eavesdropping act: Jack Anderson, a legman for Newspeeper Columnist Drew Pearson, and Baron (name, not title) Ignatius Shacklette, chief investigator for the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight and a veteran congressional shamus. Next day the House subcommittee fired Shacklette (but Pearson kept Anderson on, saying: "I need him"). Then, the Goldfine entourage, hastened by a belated report from Goldfine's secretary, Mildred Paperman, that her room had been rifled of important documents, moved out of the Sheraton-Carlton amid much tub-thumping and hoopla, took up new quarters across K Street in 19 rooms...
...Bernard Schwartz was far from ready to return to his academic ivory tower. No sooner was he fired than he consulted with two of his favorite newsmen, the Des Moines Register's Clark Mollenhoff and a Drew Pearson legman named Jack Anderson. Off marched Schwartz and Mollenhoff, with a suitcase and two cardboard boxes full of subcommittee documents, to the Mayflower Hotel suite of Delaware's investigations-minded Republican Senator John Williams. Williams recognized that the papers had, in effect, been pilfered from a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives, turned Schwartz and Mollenhoff back into...