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...assignment he had picked graduates of tough schools. Husky Bill Mooney, 30, an ex-tail gunner who was shot down over Germany, had been trained on the police beat of Chicago's rough & ready City News Bureau (TIME, June 6). So had Fred Bird, 28, a Pacific combat pilot. They left the city room and were swallowed up by Skid...
Days On. Last week, the Daily News jolted Chicagoans with a spread of Hogarth-like pictures and the Mooney-Bird story of their 14 days in the land of "the living dead." In the twelve-part series, Reporters Mooney and Bird described the worst of 82 squalid saloons in three-quarters of a Madison Street mile (most of them selling the "morning special," a double shot of whisky for 18?), listed the names & addresses of saloonkeepers who were breaking the state liquor and health laws, and put the finger on couldn't-care-less cops...
Nights Off. Tough as they were, Mooney and Bird soon found that Skid Row was tougher. One time Mooney got violently ill having a sociable drink of beer and wine, and had to quit for the day. After one night in a bug-infested hotel, the two reporters gave up, slipped home of nights to their own beds...
...tried to line up proxies against Webster. But last week, when the long-deferred meeting finally came, Straus could muster only about 200,000 votes against Webster's 715,379. As Straus's successor on Eversharp's board of directors, Webster brought in James D. Mooney, who had been recently booted out of Willys-Overland Motors' presidency as abruptly as Straus had been booted out of Eversharp...
Guiding arrangements for the panel discussions are Patricia Troxell '49, Paige Mooney '50, Diana Stallings '57, and Lorua Carey...