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...local reporting, where time was not a factor and the "resourcefulness" of the reporter led to "constructive results," New York World-Telegram and Sun Reporter Edward J. Mowery, 47. Mowery's dogged work to free an ex-dime store clerk named Louis Hoffner, who had been unjustly sentenced to life imprisonment on a murder conviction, won Hoffner a complete pardon (TIME...
This sort of license for a Congressional committee is dangerous. But when the group's guiding spirit is Joseph McCarthy, the situation becomes equally perilous for the rights of privacy and fair hearing. As part of his Committee correspondence, the supposedly objective chairman, McCarthy, addressed a telegram to witness James Wechler, editor of the N. Y. Post, in care of Howard Lawson--Wechler's alleged pseudonym during his Communist Party days. Since the point under exploration, while distant from any possibility of prospective legislation or other constructive result, is Wechler's present political convictions, such a move pressages a biased...
First there was a telegram saying that
...Tribune gave its readers only a small test sample of the changes Farrar prescribed, but the Call-Bulletin put on its new dress all at once, just as the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Portland Oregon Journal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Houston Post and scores of others had done after Typographer Farrar redesigned them. Farrar, whose clients often call him "the Deacon" because of his evangelical zeal for tidy typography (i.e., his own), bases all his prizewinning designs on a simple theory: "There are more eyes among readers than intellects...
Gradually, by outliving other Union veterans, Albert became a celebrated man in Duluth, where he had settled down. Harry Truman sent him a telegram on his 100th birthday in 1947. Duluth schoolchildren collected 27,652 pennies, and had his portrait painted in the uniform of the Grand Army of the Republic...