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<p style=" color: rgb(37, 37, 37); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The&nbsp;<b>North American Newspaper Alliance</b>&nbsp;(NANA) was a large newspaper syndicate that flourished between 1922 and 1980.

Founded by&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Neville_Wheeler" title="John Neville Wheeler" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John Neville Wheeler</a>, NANA employed some of the most noted writing talents of its time, including&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantland_Rice" title="Grantland Rice" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Grantland Rice</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alsop" title="Joseph Alsop" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Joseph Alsop</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stern(journalist)" title="Michael Stern (journalist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Michael Stern</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothrop_Stoddard" title="Lothrop Stoddard" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Lothrop Stoddard</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson" title="Dorothy Thompson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dorothy Thompson</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Schuyler" title="George Schuyler" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George Schuyler</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Frederick" title="Pauline Frederick" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Pauline Frederick</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheilah_Graham_Westbrook" title="Sheilah Graham Westbrook" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sheilah Graham Westbrook</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Ferber" title="Edna Ferber" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Edna Ferber</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a>. and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ernest Hemingway</a>&nbsp;(who famously covered the Spanish Civil War for NANA).

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance#Wheeler_era" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Wheeler era</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance#Cuneo_era" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Cuneo era</span></a></li>

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<p style=" color: rgb(37, 37, 37); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wheeler established the North American Newspaper Alliance in 1922 as a union of 50 major newspapers in the United States and Canada. It absorbed the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Syndicate" title="Bell Syndicate" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bell Syndicate</a>, a similar organization he had founded around 1916, although both continued to operate individually under joint ownership. NANA continued to acquire other syndicates over time. Wheeler became general manager in 1930. One of its most famous correspondents was Ernest Hemingway who was sent to Spain in 1937 Hemingway to report on the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Spanish Civil War</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;He based one of his best-known novels,&nbsp;<i>For Whom the Bell Tolls</i>&nbsp;on his experiences there.</p>

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Ronne" title="Edith Ronne" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Edith Ronne</a>&nbsp;was a correspondent for the NANA syndicate during the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronne_Antarctic_Research_Expedition" title="Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition</a>(1947-1948).</div>

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<p style=" color: rgb(37, 37, 37); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Among its other notable stories was the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronne_Antarctic_Research_Expedition" title="Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition</a>, which in 1947 and 1948 researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Ronne" title="Edith Ronne" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Edith Ronne</a>, wife of the expedition leader, was a correspondent for the syndicate, posting dispatches from Antarctica for the duration of the expedition. She named a landform there,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wheeler" title="Cape Wheeler" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Cape Wheeler</a>, in honour of her editor.</p>

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In the 1930s and 1940s, NANA was known for its selections for the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Football_All-America_Team" title="College Football All-America Team" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">College Football All-America Team</a>, using four well-known coaches each year.

In 1943,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Wolfert" title="Ira Wolfert" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ira Wolfert</a>&nbsp;won an international Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting for his field reports for NANA during the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Eastern_Solomons" title="Battle of the Eastern Solomons" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Battle of the Eastern Solomons</a>.</p>

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<p style=" color: rgb(37, 37, 37); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By the early 1950s the syndicate was being overshadowed by more powered news syndicates, and </span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">it was purchased by a small group of investors led by&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo" title="Ernest Cuneo" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ernest Cuneo</a>, formerly associated with&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Security_Coordination" title="British Security Coordination" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">British Security Coordination</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" title="Office of Strategic Services" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">OSS</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivar_Bryce&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ivar Bryce (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ivar Bryce</a>. They gave the job of European Vice President to the writer and their mutual friend&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming" title="Ian Fleming" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ian Fleming</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-conant_2-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance#cite_note-conant-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[2</span>]</a></sup><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cuneo acquired full control over NANA in the mid-1950s and served as president until 1963 when he sold it. However, he remained with NANA as a columnist and military analyst from 1963 to 1980.</span><sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_3-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance#cite_note-NYTObit-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></p>

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Because of Cuneo's association with former members of American and British intelligence, including Fleming and Bryce, and because some writers in the Cuneo era had alleged links to the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA" title="CIA" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">CIA</a>, critics have suggested that NANA under his tenure was a front for espionage.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup>

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font color="#252525">A notable event late in the syndicate’s history occurred when a freelance correspondent,&nbsp;</font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucianne_Goldberg" title="Lucianne Goldberg" style=" color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Lucianne Goldberg</a><font color="#252525">&nbsp;joined the press corps covering candidate&nbsp;</font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern" style=" color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">George McGovern</a><font color="#252525">during the&nbsp;</font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1972" title="United States presidential election, 1972" style=" color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">1972 presidential campaign</a><font color="#252525">,</font><font color="#ff0000"> claiming to be a reporter</font><font color="#252525"> for the Women's News Service, an affiliate of NANA. In reality, she was being paid $1000 a week by&nbsp;</font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon" style=" color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Richard Nixon</a><font color="#252525">&nbsp;operative<b>&nbsp;</b></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner" title="Murray Chotiner" style=" color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><b>Murray Chotiner</b></a><font color="#252525"><b>&nbsp;</b>for regular reports about happenings on the campaign trail. She said "They were looking for really dirty stuff...Who was sleeping with who, what the&nbsp;</font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service" title="United States Secret Service" style=" color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Secret Service</a><font color="#252525">&nbsp;men were doing with the stewardesses, who was smoking&nbsp;</font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana" title="Marijuana" class="mw-redirect" style=" color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">pot</a><font color="#252525">&nbsp;on the plane — that sort of thing."</font><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style=" color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style=" color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[6]</a></sup></span>

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The news service discontinued operations in 1980.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" -webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Collection of Ernest Hemingway,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/hemingway/hem6.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"The Spanish Civil War and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories"</a></span></li>

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<li id="cite_note-NYTObit-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" -webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance#cite_ref-NYTObit_3-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><i>New York Times</i>,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/05/obituaries/ernest-l-cuneo-82-owned-news-service.html?pagewanted=1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">Ernest Cuneo Obituary</a>, March 5, 1988</span></li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" -webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance#cite_ref-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web" style=" word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.webcitation.org/64lKpuxzU" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"NORTH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NameBase" title="NameBase" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">NameBase</a></i>. Archived from&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.namebase.org/xnoe/North-american-Newspaper-Alliance.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">the original</a>&nbsp;on 2012-01-17<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2012-01-20</span>.</span></span></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Neville Wheeler,&nbsp;<i>I’ve Got News for You: Fifty Years in The Newspaper Syndication Business</i>, 1961.</li>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Ernest L. Cuneo</b>&nbsp;(May 27, 1905 – March 1, 1988<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>) was an American lawyer, newspaperman, author, and intelligence liaison. He was also a professional&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football" title="American football" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">football</a>player in the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Football League</a>.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#Athletics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Athletics</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#Newspapers" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Newspapers</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#Law_and_politics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Law and politics</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#World_War_II" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">World War II</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#Published_works" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Published works</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#References" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">6</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#Further_reading" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">7</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cuneo was also a star athlete in high school and later played football at&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Columbia</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_State_University" title="Penn State University" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Penn State University</a>. Afterwards, he played two seasons in the NFL for the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Tornadoes" title="Orange Tornadoes" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Orange Tornadoes</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers_(NFL)" title="Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Brooklyn Dodgers</a>.</p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cuneo's first newspaper experience was as editor of the school newspaper at&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_Rutherford_High_School&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="East Rutherford High School (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">East Rutherford High School</a>. During his college vacations, Cuneo worked for the&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Daily_News" title="New York Daily News" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York Daily News</a></i>. He later served as president of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Newspaper_Alliance" title="North American Newspaper Alliance" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">North American Newspaper Alliance</a>&nbsp;and was later editor-at-large of the&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Evening_Post" title="Saturday Evening Post" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Saturday Evening Post</a></i>. For a number of years he wrote a syndicated column, "Take It or Leave It," which appeared three times a week. The success of the column led to an offer to take over the "National Whirligig," the original "news behind the news" column which appeared five days a week. Cuneo also wrote several books. His writings also appeared in several articles posted by the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Football_Researchers_Association" title="Professional Football Researchers Association" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Professional Football Researchers Association</a>. These writing reflected on Cuneo's own experiences in the NFL, as well as his friendship with&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="Pro Football Hall of Fame" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Pro Football Hall of Famer</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Friedman" title="Benny Friedman" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Benny Friedman</a>.

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Gabler" title="Neal Gabler" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Neal Gabler</a><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, from the mid-1930s on,</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Cuneo not only acted as a liaison between&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt" title="Franklin Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Franklin Roosevelt</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell" title="Walter Winchell" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Walter Winchell</a>, but he frequently wrote long political items for the Winchell column.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[2]</a></sup></span></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After acquiring his law degree, Cuneo became law secretary to&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorello_LaGuardia" title="Fiorello LaGuardia" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Fiorello LaGuardia</a>, who was then a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">congressman</a>&nbsp;representing&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York</a>. During this time, he would brief LaGuardia on the investigations of judicial malpractice and fraudulent bankruptcies. His 1955 memoir&nbsp;<i>Life With Fiorello</i>&nbsp;would serve in large part for the basis of the Tony Award-winning musical&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorello!" title="Fiorello!" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Fiorello!</a></i>

In 1936, James Farley appointed Cuneo associate general counsel of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democratic National Committee</a>. He would later represent&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell" title="Walter Winchell" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Walter Winchell</a>.</p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">World War II</a>&nbsp;began,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joseph_Donovan" title="William Joseph Donovan" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">General William Donovan</a>, who was head of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" title="Office of Strategic Services" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Office of Strategic Services</a>&nbsp;(OSS), appointed Cuneo a liaison officer between the OSS,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Security_Coordination" title="British Security Coordination" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">British Security Coordination</a>&nbsp;(a part of MI-6),<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">United States Department of State</a>, and U.S. President&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt" title="Franklin Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Franklin Roosevelt</a>.</span>

A friend of the muckraking newspaper columnist and broadcaster&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Pearson(journalist)" title="Drew Pearson (journalist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Drew Pearson</a>, Cuneo used his position at the OSS to leak stories on U.S. commanders and their behavior.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;Pearson, whose reputation had been severely damaged after President Roosvelt had publicly called him a liar, wanted to strike back at the administration and its conduct of the war. Cuneo suggested to Pearson that a sensational, exclusive news story would make people forget Roosevelt's criticism, and offered Pearson details of General&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S.Patton" title="George S. Patton" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George S. Patton</a>'s slapping of a private soldier he had learned from others in the War Department.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;Pearson's resulting broadcasts and news articles sufficiently concerned Secretary of War&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_L.Stimson" title="Henry L. Stimson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Henry L. Stimson</a>&nbsp;that he requested Army General&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_T.McNarney" title="Joseph T. McNarney" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Joseph T. McNarney</a>&nbsp;to "..put an inspector on the War Department to see who has been leaking out information. Pearson's articles are about three-quarters false but there's just a germ of truth in them that someone must have given him."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While working with Donovan and British Intelligence, Cuneo became acquainted with such notable people as&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Stephenson" title="Sir William Stephenson" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sir William Stephenson</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Roald Dahl</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Noël Coward</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivar_Bryce&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ivar Bryce (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ivar Bryce</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond" title="James Bond" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">James Bond</a>&nbsp;creator,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming" title="Ian Fleming" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ian Fleming</a></span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. A particularly close friendship developed between Fleming and Cuneo, and Fleming named a taxi driver in his James Bond novel&nbsp;</span><i style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_Are_Forever(novel)" title="Diamonds Are Forever (novel)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Diamonds Are Forever</a></i><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;"Ernie Cureo"&nbsp;</span><i style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(sic).</i><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Fleming later credited Cuneo with more than half the plot for&nbsp;</span><i style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger(novel)" title="Goldfinger (novel)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Goldfinger</a></i><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and all of the basic plot for&nbsp;</span><i style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderball(novel)" title="Thunderball (novel)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Thunderball</a></i><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; the dedication of the latter novel reads, "To Ernest Cuneo, Muse." For his service during the war, Cuneo was decorated by&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy" title="Italy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Italy</a><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Great Britain</a><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa,Italy" title="Genoa, Italy" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">City of Genoa</a><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></p>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cuneo, Earnest L., "Present at the Creation: Professional Football in the Twenties."&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Scholar_(magazine)" title="The American Scholar (magazine)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><i>American Scholar</i></a>, 1987.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cuneo, Earnest L.,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/08-08-278.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 18px; background: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"I Remember Benny"</a>, 1986.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cuneo, Earnest L.,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/10-04-342.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 18px; background: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"In the Same League"</a>, 1988.</li>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" -webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/05/obituaries/ernest-l-cuneo-82-owned-news-service.html?pagewanted=1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Ernest L. Cuneo, 82; Owned Newspaper Service"</a>,&nbsp;<i>The New York Times</i>, March 5, 1988. Accessed April 23, 2010.</span></li>

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<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" -webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cuneo#cite_ref-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Sweeney, Michael S.,&nbsp;<i>Secrets of victory: the Office of Censorship and the American press and Radio in World War II</i>, University of North Carolina Press,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0807825980" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 0-8078-2598-0</a>&nbsp;(2001), pp. 157-162</span></li>

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