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...advice of his old friend and first employer, Bernard Baruch, Columnist-Showman Billy Rose turned down an offer of $25,000 a week to do a television show for RCA, became instead consulting director for the 1953 California World Progress Exposition. Salary: one pound of his favorite tobacco (Mixture...
Philadelphia Bulletin Columnist Earl Selby started the day in a peculiar manner, came down to breakfast one morning with his face unshaven, and wearing the shabbiest clothes he could find. He sprinkled the contents of a vacuum cleaner over himself, then doused himself with stale beer. Selby's slim, red-haired wife Dorothy was not the least bit surprised at this performance...
...investigated. He found, to the transit company's amazement, that its cashiers were systematically overcharging everyone. When other readers complained about tenement "fire traps," Selby checked into the city ordinances, and soon landlords of 113 buildings were hauled up for violations. From then on, tips flooded in and Columnist Selby became Philadelphia's Mr. Fixit...
...center, the union posted a $25,000 reward for the capture of his killers; a few days later, tens of thousands of garment workers joined the funeral march (TIME, May 23, 1949) as 100 New York City detectives hunted the killers. The hunt was still at its height when Columnist Walter Winchell got into the case: from a friend "on the side of law and order" he learned the names of the two suspects, broadcast a plea to "B.M." and "J.G." to surrender. Later, the two men sought by the cops-Benedict Macri, a garment manufacturer whose shop the union...
...close watch the police had put on him. Furthermore, Benedict knew he could not hide much longer because his money was running out. First Jimmy tried to persuade a prominent public figure to accept Benedict's surrender, but got a turndown. A few weeks ago, Jimmy went to Columnist Winchell, made a deal with him to accept the surrender. While the details were being worked out, Winchell, always a shrewd showman, broadcast two more "appeals" to Benedict Macri to give up. Last week the columnist told the New York Mirror to get its story and Page One headlines ready...