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...later conversation, Seymour made what he now calls a "serious mistake": he informed Burnham of the arrangement with LIFE. "We really treated him like a brother," Seymour told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "We considered him one of the good guys out to help reform this problem." Trying to protect Leuci, Seymour pleaded with Burnham: "You'll have him killed." But two weeks after that conversation, with Leuci in protective custody, Seymour got a call one afternoon from Burnham indicating that the Times had no intention of complying with any restrictions on the story. Still later that day, Seymour talked...
...months ago as a result of work by the Knapp Commission, a special body investigating New York City police corruption that came into being almost entirely because of articles by veteran Investigative Reporter David Burnham in the Times. Going beyond the Knapp group, Seymour used City Detective Robert Leuci as an undercover man, gathering evidence of payoffs and other malfeasance. Eventually the prosecutor assembled a force of 40 local and federal agents who made liberal use of underworld informants. He anticipated a huge haul, but Leuci got restive. He was in danger much of the time, his family under constant...
Seymour and his aides hit on a novel way of providing that boost: they would arrange for the story of Leuci's exploits to be told-when the time was right-by LIFE. Last March one of Seymour's men got in touch with the magazine and offered to arrange for interviews with Leuci, provided the story be withheld until the investigation was completed. LIFE in turn agreed to allow Seymour to check the article for legal implications, such as information that might violate defendants' rights. Otherwise, he was given no editorial say. "It was an unusual...
HARVARD ST. JOHN'S Crocker, l.e. r.e., Vacca Burrage, l.t. r.t., McGettrick Ayer, J., l.g. r.g., Connell Cabot, c. c., Gauthier DeVivo, r.g. l.g., Leuci Elwell, r.t. l.t., Buckley Wolcott, r.e. l.e., Hughes Rabinovitz, q.b. q.b., Fenlon Adams, l.h.b. r.h.b., McDermott Whipple, r.h.b. l.h.b., McDonough Fallon, f.b. f.b., Welch...