Word: scorcher
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...editors are disloyal to the United States and support and defend the Communist Party and C.P. figures convicted of conspiracy and espionage." While its case begins the long journey through the courts, the Post plans to run another series ("Winchell Revisited") as a sequel to its first 24-part scorcher, which started the fight (TIME, Jan. 21). Said Winchell: "A year ago when they started their series on me [the Post never thought] that their headlines would one day say, 'Post Sues Winchell.'" As soon as the Post starts its new series, Winchell has "a bank of eleven...
...Arabic word Ramadan means literally, "The Scorcher...
...Post's formula for revelation has become pat: a continuous series of wordy but provocative sketches of favorite Post whipping boys, e.g., Senator McCarthy, Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler. When U.S.A. Confidential began making headlines and the bestseller lists, Wechsler spotted ideal subjects for his next serial scorcher: the book's authors, the New York Mirror's editor, Jack Lait, and its nightclub columnist, Lee Mortimer, who are already defendants in twelve libel suits for their offhand reporting (TIME...