Word: newsday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the charges filed, Harris, a good reporter-rewriteman (New York Daily News) turned public relations man, last month approached Long Island Newsday Reporter Robert W. Greene with a proposition. A Harris client-John J. O'Rourke, boss of the New York Teamsters-was up for trial on a charge of jukebox racketeering. Greene had already been assigned to cover the trial, and by his account, Curly Harris, who is also a press-agent for Jimmy Hoffa, suggested that it might be worth $5,000 to Greene if he wrote gently about O'Rourke...
...Island Newsday-before vanishing from public view into an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side. This week, having dangled an irresistible bait, the Washington Post and Times Herald announced that it had lured Cartoonist Duffy, 60, out of hiding...
...stop kept all but a handful of newsmen beyond earshot; in desperation the press corps resorted to a revolving pool system, generously shared notes and observations in a sort of socialized journalism. Leggy ex-Model Jinx Falkenburg, who came along as a correspondent accredited to Long Island's Newsday, reached Novosibirsk before her luggage, bravely showed up at the ballet theater in panties and a raincoat securely belted to hide the absence of skirt...
Better Deterrent. What any serious fallout-shelter program is up against was evident in the jeering reception that the task force's report got from much of New York's press. "Ridiculous," cried Long Island's Newsday. "Smells of defeatism," muttered the New York Daily News. In rare agreement, the Wall Street Journal and the Fair Dealish New York Post cried that deterrent power, not shelters, is the only safeguard against nuclear attack...
...Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Milwaukee Journal, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union, Long Island Newsday...