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...wall. "I'll hold my nose and vote for him, even campaign for him," he told an audience of longshoremen in Portland, "because even he's better than Nixon, and that's the best I can say for him." Morse was similarly gracious in his telegram of concession: "Mrs. Morse and I extend to you and Mrs. Kennedy congratulations on your victory in Oregon...
...Yorkers were buying their morning Times and afternoon World-Telegram and Sun under the counter at Union News Co. dealers last week. Reason: a campaign by Union News Co.'s President Henry Garfinkle to hike newsstand prices of the city's dailies to make up the cost of a dealer strike last winter. "All I want is my profit," said Garfinkle. His equally profit-minded dealers followed orders to "hide" the papers, but chanted to passersby...
Sparked by a New York World-Telegram and Sun exposé (TIME, March 7), the grand jury investigation disrobed seasoned ghosts. Among them: Morris Needleman, 52, assistant principal of a Brooklyn elementary school, and Joseph Lasky, 72, who advertised himself as a former instructor at New York University. Slickest of all: debonair Freelance Writer James Butterly, who is charged with taking an exam in adolescent psychology for a dullard student at Columbia's Teachers College. Though Butterly is a grey-haired ghost of 54 and his client was 23, officials suspected nothing...
...Brown, longtime opponent of capital punishment, agonized over the Chessman case as Feb. 19 drew near. Ten hours before Chessman was to die-he had already been taken to a special deathwatch cell 15 paces from the door of the gas chamber -Brown received a State Department telegram advising him that the government of Uruguay was gravely concerned about the possibility of demonstrations protesting Chessman's execution when President Eisenhower visited Uruguay in early March. Brown promptly decided to grant a 60-day reprieve (TIME...
...Herald Tribune's Hy Gardner to grill him on the air, Paar answered their questions with the air of a do-it-yourself martyr. At one point he shed tears, telling about his ten-year-old daughter's problem of being overweight and how New York World-Telegram and Sun Columnist Harriet Van Home had called attention to it (when Randy Paar made one of her frequent appearances with papa). "Who the hell is that broad," said Paar, "to talk about my daughter's weight...