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This benign state of affairs was just too good to last. The New York World-Telegram printed embarrassing stories. Then New York's Republican state government, which contributes a lion's share of the relief funds dispensed by the city Democratic regime, began investigating. Last week, at a public hearing, State Department of Social Welfare Supervisor Bernard Shapiro lifted the racket...
...spent $22 to get a sandwich man to parade in front of the New York World with a sign reading HIRE JOE LIEBLING, but the city editor always went in & out the back way, and never saw it. Eventually Liebling landed a job on the World anyway, just before the paper folded. In the next four years he wrote more than 750 feature stories for the World-Telegram and New York Journal, made a mad miscellany of friends: curators of tropical fish, kept women, bail bondsmen, wrestlers' pressagents, horse dockers, female psychiatrists. The last thing he was told about...
Tycoon Robert Ralph Young, who takes as much pleasure in writing his own advertisements as in gobbling up more trackage, got a blow last week where it hurt. A Manhattan adman named Lawrence Fertig, who writes once a week for the New York World-Telegram financial page, criticized Bob Young's latest ad ("Let's Wake Up Rip Van Winkle...
...committee of 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...
Readers who called up the World-Telegram, agog to know how old the banker's grandfather was and how his mumps were getting along, got a red-faced explanation. The Telly had meant to say grandson...