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...story, Bolles thought, but in this business you leave no stone unturned. He was driving his new 1976 white Datsun, the first new car he had ever owned. One of the reasons investigative reporting had gotten old with him was the threats he had received--remember in the Jimmy Breslin book, The Gang That Couldn' Shoot Straight, how the old Mafia don sent his wife out every morning to start the Cadillac, just in case? It was no laughing matter to Bolles, and he had always taped the car hood to make sure nobody had tampered with...
...more than a year after it was founded by George A. Hirsch, 41, who had quit as publisher of New York magazine in a dispute with Editor Clay Felker. Hirsch assembled a staff of contributors that read like a Who's Who of liberal and "new" journalism: Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Jack Newfield, Mike Royko, Dick Schaap and other print celebrities. That was a mistake. When they found the time to produce, the results were too often lightly researched, ill-organized and self-indulgent...
...Union Leader has refused to run advertisements for the biography. It is no secret around New Hampshire that Cash once had a drinking problem and was dismissed by the Union Leader in 1959. "Nobody ever drank more than Kevin-he was a real newspaperman," says Jimmy Breslin, an old colleague from Cash's Herald Tribune days, who encouraged him in the project. Cash readily admits that he was fired-for showing up drunk to cover a golf match -but swears he has not had a drink in two years. Says he: "I gave up everything for this. I thought...
...Jimmy Breslin. A political-clubhouse view of Watergate and the year's freshest book on the subject...
...Good Guys Finally Won, Breslin...