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Emerging from an after-midnight coffee session last week at Lindy's, his favorite spot, dapper little (5 ft. 4 in.) New York Labor Columnist Victor Riesel turned off Broadway and down silent 51st Street. By habit he had taken off his glasses. Half a block from Broadway, a young man stepped from the building shadows and threw a bottle of searing, concentrated sulphuric acid into Riesel's face. The columnist clutched at his burn ing eyes, gasping, "My gosh, my gosh!" The young man walked away and was swallowed up by the night and the city...
...time Riesel had been taken to a hospital, county and city police, FBI agents and newspapermen were looking for the attacker and the answers to some obvious questions: Who had hired him? And why? The search was blocked not by a shortage of clues but by a plethora of them. Said one police inspector: "Riesel made a lot of enemies...
Born 41 years ago in New York City's Lower East Side slums, Victor Riesel grew up among militant unionists, remembers often seeing his father brought home bleeding from skirmishes with power-hungry elements in the garment trade. In his 14 years of turning out a labor column, now distributed by the Hall Syndicate to the New York Daily Mirror and 192 other newspapers, he has aimed the acid of his pen consistently at Communism, racketeering and racial bias in U.S. unions. His words have often been as hard as his father's fists. Typical opening...
...basic format. While it has taken on some Times-Herald features, including a weekly column by Maryland McCormick, the colonel's wife (TIME, March 8), it has already dropped from the new combined paper such features as Columnist Westbrook Pegler and sensational, slapdash Labor Columnist Victor Riesel. Graham expects relatively clear sailing ahead. Said he: "(Buying the TH) was the culmination of Eugene Meyer's effort for the Post for over 20 years...
...Riesel, arguing in defense of the Taft-Hartley Act, said that any organization which spends over 50 million dollars a year must stop thinking of itself as oppressed...