Bombs Away The "Mad Bomber" who has been busily planting homemade bombs around New York (TIME, Jan. 7) has given the city's newspapers one of the best homemade stories in years. No paper has matched the space or the big, black headlines that Hearst's Journal-American has given the case. But last week, after the Journal received a surprisingly frank letter from the bomber and had the chance to score the most sensational beat on the story to date, Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Sun snatched the story away.
When the Journal received the crudely printed letter (signature: F.P.), it decided...
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