Word: newsday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporter for Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 175,000), young (25), law-abiding Don Kellerman made a proposal that surprised his wife as much as it did his managing editor. Kellerman wanted to get arrested so that he could write a series on "what happens to a youngster in his first clash with the law." This is an old journalistic stunt, but Kellerman had a new twist. Instead of going to jail with the connivance of police, the usual method used by reporters, Kellerman proposed to say nothing to the police, get himself arrested while seemingly committing...
...grinding up aspirin and tobacco which they rolled into cigarettes. Not satisfied, they took a fling with dope, buying it through a "connection," a trusty who worked as a cleaning man in the courthouse. Kellerman bought one of the tiny capsules filled with white powder, smuggled it out to Newsday's Managing Editor Alan Hathaway. Next time Hathaway visited Kellerman, he whispered, "It's real, kid. It's time to see what we can do about...
...Newsday put up $500 bail and got its reporter out of jail. Then Kellerman and Hathaway went to the police. At first, the police could hardly believe their story or that anyone could buy heroin in sleepy Riverhead. But the evidence convinced them. To catch the dope peddlers, Kellerman agreed to go back to jail as a prisoner. But when Kellerman finally managed to make his second "buy," the "junk" turned out to be nothing but aspirin, epsom salts and barbiturates...
When Grand Union heard about the story, it ordered Wechsler banned from future programs, refused to discuss the matter with him. But last week other members of the panel had plenty to say. One of them was Alicia Patterson, publisher of Long Island's Newsday (circ. 138,957), daughter of the late great New York Daily Newsman, Joe Patterson, and kin of the Chicago Tribune. She refused to appear on the program unless she was allowed to condemn Grand Union's action over TV. There she said: "A dreadful mistake ... I rarely agree with the opinions...
...Thanksgiving Eve, the staff of Alicia Patterson's scrappy, prosperous (circ. 130,000) Long Island tabloid, Newsday, was well scattered, and the plant at Garden City was shut down. The paper planned to stay closed over the holiday. Then Reporter Bob Hollingsworth, who had stopped in a bar for a drink on his way home, caught a radio news bulletin. There had been a disastrous wreck on the Long Island Rail Road (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Hollingsworth tried frantically to locate Managing Editor Alan Hathway by phone, made four calls before he ran him down having dinner in a Chinese...