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...those who have sat enthralled with Lehrer's personal appearances, the record will serve as a pleasant reminder of past joys. And his new fans find restraint hard to maintain, because Lehrer is as good on wax as in the flesh. As does his lovable Old Dope Peddler, he continues, "spreading joy wherever he goes...
Three times last week, Influence Peddler Henry Grunewald lowered his bursitis-racked bulk into the witness chair of the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Each time he dropped enough names and dollar signs to whet the investigators' appetites, then retreated into playful forgetfulness or plain refusal to answer. Items: ¶On his 1948 tax return was this item: "Presidential election bets, $20,000." Said Grunewald: "I bet on Harry Truman when everybody else dropped him." Where did he place the bet? With Miami Bookmaker Harold Salvey, a Kefauver committee witness now under indictment for income...
Three weeks ago, Dennison stationed himself in a third-floor window overlooking the busy Oakland intersection, 14th and Jefferson, two blocks from city hall. Across the street, "Eddie," an undercover agent who had already made several small buys from a heroin peddler, waited for another meeting. When the peddler approached him, Dennison snapped picture after picture of the two together. Several were clear enough to make positive identifications of buyer and seller...
Last week Agent Braumoeller was ready to spring his big trap. A second agent had arranged a meeting with the same peddler at another busy street corner (19th and Harrison), and again Photographer Dennison was behind a window shooting the encounter. The two men-peddler and undercover agent-met in the agent's car, where the agent bought the dope with marked money. Suddenly other agents sprang from hiding and pulled the peddler from the car (see cut). The agent who had made the contact stepped out carrying the dope in a paper bag. The Tribune, owned...
Elegantly outfitted and wearing a vacant smile, Influence Peddler Henry Grunewald stepped back into the spotlight on Capitol Hill last week. It had been 16 months since the mysterious Grunewald first appeared before the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. At that time, he went clam-quiet after revealing no more than his name and age. Last week, having pleaded guilty to contempt of Congress, Grunewald was trying to talk his way into a light sentence. But he was still part clam, opening his shell only when it suited his convenience, clamming up again on questions he deemed...