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Frederick Woltman, Pulltser Prise-winning reporter of the New York World-Telegram and Sun, this month made the first criticism of the Harvard Class of '27 because Frederick Vanderbilt Field is a permanent officer of the class. The holds its 25th reunion this June...
...seven clergymen had not been "handpicked" by Tito, some of its members had apparently gone to Yugoslavia predisposed to a rosy view. One of the visitors, Dr. Claude C. Williams of Birmingham, Ala., was "exposed" last week by the New York World-Telegram's Red-hunting Frederick Woltman as an ex-holder of a party card...
After 18 years, Frederick Woltman is still a crusader, but nobody would call him a Red. Last month he won a Pulitzer Prize for his exposures of U.S. Communists. Unlike many reporters working the same rich field, Woltman usually has facts, not innuendoes, to write about. Last week, on its front page, the World-Telegram bannered the kind of article Freddy Woltman likes to write, and Roy Howard likes to run. The headline...
...story was typical Woltman, full of details that gave it the ring of authenticity. Wrote Woltman: in town during the East Coast shipping strike, West Coast Longshoremen's Boss Harry Bridges had held a "highly secret conference" in Manhattan with top Red brass. At 3:25 p.m., Communist National Chairman William Z. Foster and two party henchmen were spotted emerging from a West 56th Street residence. They had been visiting apartment 5-A, Woltman said. They drove off in a black Oldsmobile (New York license 7-Y-804). At 3:55 p.m., Bridges came out, wearing a tan windbreaker...
...legman was not Woltman, though the signature on the story was his, and the credit belonged mostly to him. Freddy Woltman gets most of the stories he writes by sitting at his desk in the city room. Other reporters usually develop the tips. A carefully cultivated army of tipsters, many of them disgruntled ex-Communists, keep his two phones humming all day long. Woltman checks the tips in a four-decker steel filing case, which bulges with clippings, speeches, articles, manifestoes, bulletins and letters from Communist sources, files of Woltman's "favorite morning newspaper": the Daily Worker. His steel...