Word: mcclain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Editor Leo Hirtl of the Cincinnati Post & Times-Star, the rumor that City Solicitor William McClain was in a jam rated a routine check. Since McClain had been seen around probate court the previous week, Hirtl sent a reporter to chat with court officials. The reporter discovered that McClain had appointed a man named William Jackson to appraise a recently settled estate. Jackson, it turned out, was a pseudonym for Norman S. Payne, a probate court employee who got a fee of $100, although he was not entitled to indulge in such moonlighting...
Case of the Missing Heirs. City Solicitor McClain, Horner discovered, had been doing some moonlighting of his own-as attorney for the same $38,977 estate that Jackson-Payne had worked over. Only McClain, whose services had been legal enough, had received a whopping fee of $8,625. Working at the rate of $25 an hour, he would have had to put in 345 hours to earn his paya staggering amount of time to spend on so small an estate...
...investigation he claimed to have made on behalf of the estate, McClain had been unable to discover a single heir. Yet after the estate was turned over to the city, 14 heirs showed up. Editorialized the Post & Times-Star: "McClain has destroyed public confidence in his integrity as a city official." The estate was divided among the 14 heirs. McClain, who returned part of his fee, is now under investigation by the Cincinnati Bar Association...
...Pundits Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Henry J. Taylor, William F. Buckley Jr., William S. White, Bob Considine and Jim Bishop. For sports, there were Red Smith, Bill Slocum and Jimmy Cannon. And then, besides Buchwald and Schaap, there were Walter Winchell, Harriet Van Home, John McClain, Frank Farrell...
...like The Odd Couple, Smith abstemiously designs "a set no one will ever notice." It is primarily in musicals with undernourished books that he lets fly. Prime examples: Camelot, which glittered as if it had been ripped from a medieval Book of Hours, and was called by Critic John McClain "the most beautiful show in the world." Or in Baker Street, whose eyeball-melting panoply was likened by Walter Kerr to "three world's fairs rolled into...