Word: schiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from exposing her secret life with J. Edgar-whom she has never met-Dolly Schiff revealed nothing more sensational than her own insinuation that the No. 1 G-man had stopped at practically nothing in an effort to kill a series of stories on the FBI about to begin in the Post. Banking mostly on intuition, Publisher Schiff charged that she was placed under surveillance ("Apparently the FBI was indeed watching me") ; she insinuated -without any shred of evidence-that her hotel rooms were bugged. On a trip to Washington, she said, she was warned by the Post...
...kill the story. Hoover told the advertiser, said Dolly, that the Post was angry because the FBI had once forced the dismissal of Nancy Wechsler, wife of Post Editor James Wechsler, from a Washington job. Indignantly, and at exhaustive length that spared neither the reader nor Nancy, Publisher Schiff reported that Mrs. Wechsler had belonged to the Young Communist League for a short time years ago but had never been fired from a Government...
From there, Writer Schiff went on to more innuendo: "I wondered why Hoover had lost his head. Why was he so scared? Drawing upon my knowledge of psychology, I decided he must be afraid that something damaging about his private life would be revealed in the series." But, said she piously, the Post had no intention of doing any such thing. At week's end, after four disorganized, unilluminating episodes, the series had produced nothing more damaging than the fact that the director of the FBI, as a boy, sang soprano in the church choir...
...keep a colder eye on the ledger, laid off most of their newsmen. The Herald Tribune retained key staffers, managed to keep up a normal flow of news to its Paris-printed edition, which delivered without interruption. At the New Dealing Post, Editor James Wechsler heard that Publisher Dorothy Schiff had "furloughed" her men, stalked out on leave without pay, along with his staff. Cooed Dolly: "It's typical of Jimmy's nobility to have done that...
Died. Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, 78, longtime (1922-50) Director of Fine Arts for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute; in Miami. The son of Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and a first cousin once removed of Painter Winslow Homer, Homer Saint-Gaudens was first a journalist, next entered the theater, directed Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon. As a fine-arts specialist, he knew the touch of the poet, once said: "What garlic is to salad, insanity...