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Rshface & Bug-Eyes. Without the Oregonian's disclosures, the U.S. Senate's McClellan committee might have looked in on the International Brotherhood of Teamsters merely as part of a general inquiry into the abuse of union welfare funds, and, through Teamster Boss Dave Beck's longstanding income-tax troubles, probably would even have penetrated to the Teamster chieftain's big-time peccadilloes. But Turner and Lambert gave McClellan's men a slam-bang first act that stirred immediate nationwide support for the inquiry and propelled the investigation straight to Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster...
...Newhouse's staid Oregonian -a comfortable, conservative newspaper that is normally inclined to sit back and rock on Portland's front porch-it was a tough and hazardous story. Judged by his police record, Racket Boss Elkins was, at best, an impeachable source. The villains in Elkins' story were not men to meddle with lightly-a Teamster organizer and ex-convict, as well as Multnomah County District Attorney William Langley and Sheriff (now Mayor) Terry Schrunk, both Teamster protégés. After listening to 70 hours of conversations between the key figures, tape-recorded...
Exposés & Affidavits. The Oregonian (circ. 230,850) was braced for the shocked reaction its exposé caused among readers. What it did not expect was a violent counterattack from its rival daily, the Oregon Journal (circ. 181,489). Soundly beaten on the story and unable to lay hands on the tape-recorded evidence, the Journal sent a reporter along with D.A. Langley on a hoked-up raid on an Elkins aide who had some tapes in his possession. The tapes were turned over to the Journal reporter, who allowed the Teamster organizer to copy them, and were then...
With the indictment last week of Schrunk and Langley on charges of accepting bribes from racketeers, every conspirator named by the Oregonian was facing criminal action. (Langley, who had filed libel suits for $2,000,000 against the Oregonian and several individuals who supported its story, quietly dropped them.) Still the rival Journal stuck to its guns. On Page One it ran an affidavit from Clifford ("Jimmy") Bennett, operator of an Elkins-backed after-hours drinking dive, in which Bennett denied his previous story that he had paid Schrunk $500 protection money in September 1955-the incident on which...
...Oregonian-Journal battle had a parallel in Seattle, Beck's headquarters, where the Times (circ. 190,789) teamed eagerly with the Oregonian on the story and Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 208,224) did its best to ignore the scandal (TIME, March 11). When Beck returned from Europe last month, he at first refused to be interviewed by any newsman except the PI's Douglass Welch-who with P-I Editorial Writer Nard Jones has turned out a Horatio Algerish version of Beck's life struggle. Later, when the Times gleefully quoted Beck's admission...