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...bigger than a bed," grinned the Portland Oregonian's Reporter Wallace Turner last week. "We're just sitting around with fat, happy smiles on our faces." Reporters seldom earn so rich a right to sit and grin as have Wally Turner, 36, and his Oregonian teammate, William Lambert, 37. Since the day in February 1956 when Rackets Promoter James ("Big Jim") Elkins told the reporting team about his conspiracy with Teamsters Union officials to operate a profitable vice empire in Portland, Turner and Lambert had toiled heroically to document the story...
...roughest, riskiest exposé ever carried by the 107-year-old Oregonian. It earned them the American Newspaper Guild's 1957 Heywood Broun Award.* And last week, as a grand jury handed down indictments in Portland, as the mighty Dave Beck fell off his high wagon, Turner and Lambert reaped the even greater satisfaction of knowing that their unlikely tale of local corruption had unfolded into a major national story...
...International Brotherhood of Teamsters merely as part of a general inquiry into the abuse of union welfare funds, and, through Teamster Boss Dave Beck's longstanding income-tax troubles, probably would even have penetrated to the Teamster chieftain's big-time peccadilloes. But Turner and Lambert gave McClellan's men a slam-bang first act that stirred immediate nationwide support for the inquiry and propelled the investigation straight to Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster, key figure in the Portland scandal. From there it was a short hop into Dave Beck's plush Seattle parlor...
...Except for a lighthearted excursion into the Gillette Co. (where he invented a one-piece razor and the "Blue Blade" and paid off $20 million of the company's debts), Lambert has kept busy away from industry. He has learned to paint, to play politics (for Republican candidates), to write thrillers (Murder in Newport). As owner-skipper of the famed yachts Yankee, Vanitie and Atlantic, he has lost the last of his loneliness and shyness amid Morgans and Vanderbilts...
...written with a kind of rich man's folksiness, the author being supremely sure that every reader will be interested in his views on why it is good to have money, in the family album snapshots of his children and his recollections of the great. At one point Lambert tells the Einstein anecdote in which the Father of Relativity, asked by Harold ("Mike") Vanderbilt if he likes yacht-racing, replies: "No, Mr. Vanderbilt, I am not interested in anything like that; it is so obvious that one of them must win." That was never obvious to the Father...