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Your recollection of the way Ed Lahey brought one of his news stories to conclusion several years ago [Dec. 19] provokes one Lahey admirer to remember how he began one. On the day Richard Loeb was killed in Joliet Prison, 111. by a fellow inmate to whom he had ma.de an indecent proposal, Lahey began his story approximately thus: "Thrill-killer Loeb, for all his fine college education, today ended his sentence with a proposition...
...News. Reporter Lahey soon became known to most of the cops and crooks, bigwigs and bartenders in the city. He earned a reputation as a 100-proof character, in the softhearted, hard-drinking Front Page tradition, who could also turn out a neat story. When "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn was killed in a South Side shooting match, Lahey wrote a sympathetic obituary in which he mentioned that the mobster had a weakness for golf and had bragged of qualifying for an Open tournament. At the end came the dash of bitters. "Jack was killed last night," wrote Lahey. "He died...
...with Funds. In 1936, after Lahey's barroom prowess had turned into, a city-room problem, he crawled out of Coventry by volunteering for his first labor assignment, a story on the C.I.O.'s newly formed Steel Workers Organizing Committee. The story was so good that Ed Lahey became the News's labor authority. "Anyone who goes out on a labor story and doesn't fall flat on his face," says Lahey deprecatingly, "becomes, quote a labor expert, unquote." Nevertheless, Expert Lahey combined human interest and fair-minded interpretation to such good effect in covering...
...member of the first group of Nieman Fellows at Harvard in 1938, Reporter Lahey used the year to round out his scant formal education and "cure the worst damn inferiority complex about college you ever saw." Salty Ed Lahey became a hit with the faculty, was cultivated by Felix Frankfurter, then a Harvard Law School professor, and other faculty members who delighted in the newsman's flair for deflating campus stuffed shirts. When a notoriously long-winded instructor finally wound up his lecture one day, Ed Lahey inquired slyly: "Would you mind summarizing that last point...
League, Ed Lahey joined Alcoholics Anonymous in 1940, now uses up surplus energy by playing bridge, the piano and the horses. Each winter, after saving a half-dollar at a time all year, Lahey sets off for Miami with a $400 stake for a two-week horseplaying binge. Last week, in mid-vacation, the horses were $40 ahead. Sighed Lahey: "It's the perfect vacation, knowing your money must be spent improvidently. I feel like a bum with funds...