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...Masses are also broadcast on 20 radio stations coast-to-coast. Another small coterie of believers, who want to make the U.S. a "Christian Commonwealth" (i.e., a Catholic one), clusters around L. Brent Bozell, brother-in-law of Newspaper Columnist William F. Buckley. In his magazine Triumph (circ. 5,000) Bozell has been fighting the traditionalist battle since 1966 but has proved too extreme and eccentric to gain many followers...
...Alphonse J. ("Al") Matt Jr., 42, is the personable, chain-smoking editor of the Wanderer (circ. 48,000), a journal that started as a German-language parish bulletin a century ago and has in recent decades become the pugnacious defender of orthodoxy. Matt admits that his paper is "roughhewn" and quips that intellectuals order it in a "plain brown envelope." In a series of articles criticizing reforms in the Archdiocese of Detroit, a Wanderer writer hit its progressive archbishop, John Cardinal Dearden, particularly hard, even suggested that he might be "a major heretic, one of the worst the Catholic Church...
Since 1955, the tabloid Voice (circ. 150,000) has earnestly chronicled the peculiarities of New York City life, its iconoclastic eye quick to spot problems of the underdog. Unremittingly quarrelsome, wordy and underedited, the Voice also captures the funky, ingrown perspective of Greenwich Village. Its reviewers, including such first-rate critics as Nat Hentoff and Andrew Sarris, dig up underground entertainment far from Broadway or first-run moviehouses. Columns by Militant Lesbian Jill Johnston flow endlessly, devoid of all punctuation, capitalization and-usually-sense...
...York (circ. 355,000), which emerged from the defunct Herald Tribune as a separate weekly in 1968, rapidly established its own flip, highly successful style-typified by such contributors as Tom Wolfe, Gail Sheehy and Economist "Adam Smith." Although it adopted some of the Voice's interests and also produces excellent coverage of politics and communications, New York set its prime sights on the glossy worries and aspirations of more affluent New Yorkers, telling them how to recognize the best of everything and where to buy it. If the Voice tries to counter the reigning establishment of the moment...
Gear with God. Keys' outfit, with its headquarters in Waterdown, Ont., now has twelve ordained chaplains who head the blue-uniformed chapel crews in the three rigs. It also includes 40 full-time evangelists and 300 part-time workers. Keys publishes a tabloid newspaper, The Highway Evangelist (circ. 105,000), ten times a year. Columns include "New Wheels" (births), "Gear Box Groanings" (illnesses), and "Silent Wheels" (deaths). There are also pamphlets laced with trucking metaphors like "highballing to heaven." The Bible is "the road map of life," and drivers are urged to "gear with God-you'll pull...