Word: mollenhoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book you haven't even read." Newsmen who had overheard the conversation at first agreed that they would consider it off the record; but the story, too intriguing and important to keep quiet, was printed two days later, first by Des Moines Register and Tribune Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff...
National Reporting: Associated Press's Relman ("Pat") Morin, 50, winner of a 1951 Pulitzer for his coverage of the Korean war for his reporting on the Little Rock story; Clark Mollenhoff, 37, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, for stories on labor racketeering so well documented that they were used by Senate investigators as leads in the devastating exposure of Teamsters Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck...
...Bernard Schwartz was far from ready to return to his academic ivory tower. No sooner was he fired than he consulted with two of his favorite newsmen, the Des Moines Register's Clark Mollenhoff and a Drew Pearson legman named Jack Anderson. Off marched Schwartz and Mollenhoff, with a suitcase and two cardboard boxes full of subcommittee documents, to the Mayflower Hotel suite of Delaware's investigations-minded Republican Senator John Williams. Williams recognized that the papers had, in effect, been pilfered from a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives, turned Schwartz and Mollenhoff back into...
From Senator Williams' apartment, Schwartz and Mollenhoff, after picking up Jack Anderson at Drew Pearson's home, took the documents to the home of Oregon's ex-Republican, ex-Independent, now Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, who had none of Williams' qualms about accepting them. Morse grandly offered to return them to the House-and permitted new Subcommittee Chairman Harris to come for them in person...
...show lacked the hippodrome theatrics of other-day TV hearings, it was a smoothly professional job, with Labor Reporter Clark Mollenhoff (Des Moines Register) and Du Mont's Matt Warren providing knowledgeable commentary. The show was marred only once: as Senator Kennedy illustrated shakedown techniques by playing tapped phone conversations involving extortion, Mollenhoff intruded with extraneous commentary...