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...useful at keeping his fellow Roman Catholics in line. He was rewarded by a visit to Moscow for Stalin's birthday in 1950, a high Polish decoration only last month for having signed away to Poland all German territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers, and a congratulatory telegram only a few weeks ago from Andrei Vishinsky...
...other things he also objected to putting out the "kind of magazine in which McCarthy is a sacred character." In October Hazlitt, Newsweek contributing editor and onetime (1934-46) New York Times editorial writer, resigned, though he had the backing of other director-stockholders.* Said Director Lawrence Fertig, World-Telegram and Sun economic analyst: "The Freeman became intemperate . . . It should have convinced by logic and reason, with less shrillness, less direct hysteria...
...papers across the nation, the news broke with a splash. Headlined the New York World-Telegram and Sun: CROONER SENDS BLONDE INTO A TRANCE. Said the Long Beach Independent: LOVE SONG HYPNOTIZES BEAUTY. The Wichita Eagle carried a Page One picture of a "petite, shapely blonde, still unidentified . . . after she fell into a 'trance' while listening to Baritone Singer John Arcesi sing Lost in Your Love at a Las Vegas nightclub." U.P. and I.N.S. put the story on the wires. Though many newsmen suspected the story, they still ran it, and thus fell for one of the most...
...York's World-Telegram and Sun, Edward J. Mowery, 46, is known as a "singleminded" reporter who never lets go of a story once he gets hold of it. Six years ago Mowery got hold of the case of Louis Hoffner, a dime-store clerk sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a New York City tavern owner in a holdup. Mowery heard about the case as the result of another good piece of reporting; he had just dug up evidence to help free Bertram M. Campbell, a Wall Street customer's man convicted of forgery...
After six years of having the state turn down all appeals, Mowery went again to the district attorney's office with the complete evidence. Last week, across the top of Page One in the World-Telegram and Sun, was a banner headline on Mowery's triumph: JUSTICE AFTER 12 LONG YEARS. HOFFNER LIFE TERM SET ASIDE. In setting aside the conviction, Judge Peter T. Farrell said: "Had the information [that we now have] been made known before, the course of justice might . . . have been completely different...