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Died. Eliezer ("Lou") Shainmark, 75, ingenious Hearst newspaper editor; after a long illness; in The Bronx. While night editor of the New York Journal-American in 1934, Shainmark suggested comparing handwriting samples of Suspect Bruno Richard Hauptmann with ransom notes of the kidnaper of Charles Lindbergh's slain 20-month-old son. The result was the first concrete evidence against Hauptmann, who was later convicted, and a triumph for Shainmark...
Managing Editor Eliezer ("Lou") Shainmark of Hearst's Chicago Herald-American saw a way to combine a good deed and a good story. He got his labor editor to talk to big Mike Sexton, boss of the local A.F.L. Carpenters Union. Mike pulled on an old khaki jacket and went out to build the house himself-his first carpentry job in 32 years. Other unions contributed labor while builders supplied materials. This week, a $17,000 free Cape Cod-style house for Roberta was rising out of the ashes...
...shakeup hit the Herald's top brass. Chicago-trained, cigar-chomping George Ashley De Witt came on from Washington as executive editor-the job once held by loud Lou Ruppel, who got in bad with the Chief by branding Chicago "Dirty Shirt Town." Drawling Lou Shainmark came back from the Washington bureau to his old job as managing editor. A squad of other executives was reshuffled...
Howey would say not a word about what was afoot at the Herald. "Just watch the paper, that's all," said Shainmark. Last week it was worth watching once more; the front page looked like the result of an explosion in a type foundry...
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