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Edwin A. (for Aloysius) Lahey is a stubby, rumpled Chicago Daily News correspondent who is one of the top U.S. labor reporters. Some colleagues go even farther. New York Timesman Meyer Berger, who is often called the best U.S. reporter, says: "Ed Lahey is the best reporter in America." Next week, Reporter Lahey, 53, will take over from Veteran Paul R. (for Roscoe) Leach, 65, who is retiring as head of the Washington bureau for John S. Knight's Chicago Daily News and the other Knight newspapers (the Detroit Free Press, Akron Beacon-Journal, Miami Herald, Charlotte Observer...
Although Ed Lahey has been assigned to Knight's Washington bureau for 15 years, he has steadfastly resisted the occupational urge to become a pundit. "I don't know anything duller than an expert," says Lahey. "I have constantly striven for superficiality. The best stories are written by guys who don't know anything about the subject. A kid who goes in cold to cover a labor convention may make it sing." Because of his own talent for going in cold to tackle a top story, Ed Lahey, who calls himself a "paid free lancer," has roved...
...labor beat, Lahey has often scooped stay-at-home competitors with such stories as his disclosure in 1953 that the A.F.L.'s Martin Durkin was resigning as Eisenhower's first Labor Secretary...
Hundred Proof. A West Side Chicago machinist's son, Ed Lahey went to work at 14 as an office boy, later was a shipping clerk, hod carrier and railroad yard clerk before he landed his first newspaper job in 1927, on the now defunct Glen Ellyn, Ill. weekly Beacon. Two years later, after reporting stints with the East St. Louis Journal and the Associated Press, Lahey was hired by the Chicago Daily News, "the only paper I ever wanted to work...
...quick grasp of the stately choreography of a full-dress Washington reception. At week's end Magloire left Washington for New York and Nashville to receive kudos from Columbia, Fordham and Fisk Universities; afterwards he will go to Boston for a quick physical checkup at the Lahey Clinic before he starts a five-day tour of Canada...