One of Loeb's first infamous journalistic exploits was the publishing of his own baptismal certificate on the front page of both Vermont papers in an attempt to disprove rumors of his Jewish ancestry.

[4] Loeb cited ulcers for his medical exemption from service during World War II, allegedly drinking large quantities of alcohol before doctor's visits to ensure flare-ups.

Marka Loening, increasingly resentful of the presence of Scripps-Howard heiress Elizabeth "Nackey" Scripps-Gallowhur in the newspaper offices, withdrew her interests in Loeb's papers that same year.

Loeb quickly wooed Bernard McQuaid over to the Union Leader, and bought the Sunday News outright in 1948.

Loeb's then-wife, Eleanore McAllister, gave birth to a daughter, Katharine Penelope, on October 29, 1948.

Nackey was initially placed in charge of printing, but the couple left Vermont in 1952 in the wake of his mother's lawsuit.

[4] The Vermont papers flailed in the absence of Loeb's attention, and also suffered from negative reader and advertiser reaction to his opinionated absentee editorials.

He again hoped to dispel gossip about his Jewish heritage, this time in the wake of controversy surrounding his political endorsements.

[8] Her will acknowledged Loeb's siblings, ex-wife Eleanore McAllister, and his daughter Katharine Penelope, but left him nothing.

He filed suit, beginning a five-year legal battle that lasted through 1973 and rose to the Vermont Supreme Court, claiming that he had reconciled with his mother and that she had promised him 75 percent of her estate.

When his daughter suffered a near-fatal injury in an equestrian accident the next year and lost a kidney, Loeb refused to speak to her.

[4] In early 1972, Loeb attacked Edmund Muskie through the Union Leader, derailing the Maine senator's 1972 presidential bid.

Believed to be an act of political sabotage originating from within the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, the letter implied that Muskie was prejudiced against French-Canadians.

[9] Loeb also published an editorial previously issued by Newsweek that portrayed Muskie's wife, Jane, in an unfavorable light.

[10] Muskie's subsequent emotional defense of himself and his wife in front of the newspaper's offices in Manchester was seen as a sign of weakness and instability.

[12] Regardless, the event had a negative impact on his campaign—in the view of reporter David S. Broder, "Muskie never recovered from that Saturday in the snow.

"[12] Loeb's journalism résumé was the subject of skepticism in 1974, when he claimed in a front-page editorial to have worked for the Hearst conglomerate, as a reporter for the New York World for eight years before buying his St. Albans paper.

The Hearst Corporation denied he had ever been employed there, and the World had actually ceased operations eight years before Loeb said he had started work there.

[13] Loeb also gained infamy in the 1970s for attacking then-governor Walter R. Peterson Jr.'s teenage daughter for allegedly advocating the use of marijuana.