Word: mcculloch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN Dallas Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch was a bush-league pitcher before World War II, he often daydreamed of sitting on the St. Louis Cardinals' bench and hearing the manager say: "Frank, we need this one for the pennant...
...third pitch bounced off the third batter's head, and the Fallon crowd poured out of the stands, bent on tar-and-feathering McCulloch. But cooler heads prevailed; they argued that after all McCulloch had just presented the Merchants with three runs. The fans returned to the stands and McCulloch went back to the mound. Respectfully, the Merchants stood far back from the plate. But Frank's sizzler began to work. He went on to strike out 19 batters and even walloped a seventh-inning homer, but the damage was done-Verdi lost...
...Business. Schlesinger, whose job was to drum up new business for Glore, Forgan, first presented his scheme to Raymond Newman, a financial adviser for the Herzfeld brothers and McCulloch. during a visit to Milwaukee to see his father (his mother renounced all claims to the custody of her son when she divorced his father in 1920, and a trust of upwards of $300,000 was set up and later turned over to the lad). Schlesinger said that his mother had put $500,000 in a "hush-hush" Louisiana oilfield. As recounted in the indictment, he said that "Mrs. Harrison Williams...
Beginning of the End. Then, for another $150,000. Schlesinger offered to sell half interest in an option he claimed his mother held on another Louisiana oilfield. McCulloch was more cautious this time. He told Schlesinger that he wanted Mrs. Williams' financial adviser, Paul Preger, to confirm an agreement whereby Mrs. Williams would indemnify McCulloch if the deal fell through. Schlesinger. who was vacationing in Mexico, flew to Dallas, spoke to McCulloch's confidential aide, Joseph Hegener, on the phone, pretending he was Preger, confirmed the deal and sent a wire signed "Preger...
...McCulloch sent along his check for $150,000, part of which Schlesinger turned over to Van Cleef & Arpels. Then Hegener, trying to recheck some details with Preger, reached him at a St. Louis hotel, found that he had not been in Dallas and listened in horror while the real Preger told him that Mrs. Williams had no interest in the oil properties. McCulloch stopped payment on the check. Thus, when Van Cleef & Arpels tried to deposit Schlesinger's check, it bounced -and Hogan's office started to investigate. At week's end Hogan was still looking...