National Affairs: FBI Scooped

For years the Washington Times-Herald has offered $5 for news tips. Auburn-haired Publisher Eleanor Medill Patterson paid out many a $5, got in return many a 5¢ scoop, many a phony tip, many a headache. But last week "Cissie" Patterson got her money's worth. From a news tip, a crew of four male reporters from her newshen-house unearthed a story that scooped the entire U. S. press and the Government—particularly the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Cissie Patterson's Bureau of Investigation, headed by her eye's apple, tall, lean, tough, red-haired Reporter Jimmy Cullinane, found that:...