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More newspapers and magazines are assigning individual reporters, or groups of them, to work full-time searching for exposés. Some notable scoops have resulted. LIFE, for instance, revealed connections between Abe Fortas and Financier Louis Wolfson, who was later imprisoned, that eventually forced Fortas to resign from the Supreme Court. A team working for the Long Island paper Newsday counts 21 indictments, seven convictions and 30 resignations of public officials and businessmen as a result of its stories. Other journalistic sleuths have won national recognition for local digging; in the past four years, exposes of harbor-commission bribery...
MUSKIE. Clearly most stunned by the results was Edmund Muskie-and all of the professionals in press and politics who had seen him as almost a cinch for the nomination only two short weeks before. He had been the front runner, the sincere, often eloquent Abe Lincoln with the rockbound Maine integrity -who contrasted so sharply with the expedient, unlovable Richard Nixon. The image campaign urged everyone to "trust Muskie." But when he turned weepy and peevish and no one could figure precisely what to trust him on, that image turned as fuzzy as Lincoln's beard. By ignoring...
Baker can be bitter: "The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heroes and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand." Baker can be elegiac, as when he raises the tragic ghost of Abe Lincoln, who says, "A man eventually likes to see the record on himself completed and know that everything is fixed and that his life is in order. I groan every time an archivist discovers another hitherto lost Brady portrait...
...tumor when he was three). "Look," Cohn said to him, "for the same price I can get an actor with two eyes." Falk went to other studios, and in his first two pictures earned Oscar nominations in the supporting-actor category-one for his vicious evocation of Abe Reles in Murder Inc. (1960), the other for his Runyonesque hood in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles...
...Rogoff, 88, former editor in chief of the nation's leading Yiddish newspaper, the Jewish Daily Forward; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The Socialist-leaning Forward spoke for the horde of immigrants that arrived in New York City after World War I. Under the stewardship of Founder Abe Cahan and then City Editor Rogoff, it helped break Tammany's hold on the Lower East Side and led the city's garment workers into the I.L.G.W.U., meanwhile advising Jewish mothers to keep their kinderle supplied with clean handkerchiefs. The paper boasted a circulation...