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...publicity. Early last month. Columnist Drew Pearson charged, in a $3,100,000 damage suit, that the Times-Herald was in league with Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy and others to ruin him (TIME, March 12). Then a congressional investigating committee called Bazy, Assistant Managing Editor Garvin Tankersley, and other T-H staffers to Capitol Hill to explain why they published a composite picture showing Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings and Communist Earl Browder together (TIME, March...
Senator Butler's campaign treasurer, Baltimore Attorney Cornelius P. Mundy, was one witness who disagreed with Tankersley. Said Mundy: the composite picture was "stupid, puerile and in bad taste...
...story material, and Times-Herald files most of the pictures. The composite, he said stoutly, was "not a fake . . . not a fraud." It was, he added with a straight face, just a happy answer to a problem of "space limitation." Assistant Managing Editor Garvin E. Tankersley, who had ordered the composite made, acknowledged that he was trying to "show that Mr. Tydings did treat Mr. Browder with kid gloves." Asked Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney: "You see nothing wrong in the composite?" Said Tankersley...