EDWIN L. WEISL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/07/1964 CO-SIGNED BY: LOUIS SOBOL - HFSID 76322

EDWIN WIESL, SR. CO-SIGNED BY: LOUIS SOBOL
Letter to a Hearst newspaper columnist, name dropping about his friendship with President Johnson and with Hearst executives. Sobol flags the letter for filing.
Typed Letter signed: "Ed", 1 page, 8½x11. New York, N.Y., 1964 January 4. On letterhead of the Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett (law firm) to Louis Sobol, New York Journal American, New York, N. Y. In full: "I very much appreciate the warm and gracious paragraph you wrote about me and my friendship with the President. Your reference to our mutual departed friend, Bill Curley, recalled many happy memories. Incidentally, when Lyndon Johnson was a Congressman he had dinner with Bill Curley, Alice and myself on many occasions. Bill Curley always liked him. As you perhaps know, President Johnson is also a warm friend of Dick Berlin. With love to Peggy and yourself from us all, and wishing you every blessing for the New Year, I am, Sincerely". Ink note in upper left corner: "File/LS". Edwin L. Wiesl, Sr. (1897-1972), a lawyer and longtime executive of Paramount Pictures (1938-1961), was indeed a long standing friend of Lyndon Johnson. Johnson arranged Wiesl's selection as Democratic National Committeeman from New York State (without consulting the State's Democratic Senator, Robert Kennedy). Louis Sobol (1896-1986) wrote a gossip-oriented entertainment column for 40 years, initially focused on the Broadway stage but also covering film and TV personalities, for the New York Journal American. William "Bill" Curley had been Sobol's editor at the Journal American, while Richard "Dick" Berlin was longtime board chairman of the Hearst newspaper chain. Multiple mailing folds. Fine condition.