Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There indeed seem to be. The Rev. Andrew Greeley is, among other people, a Roman Catholic priest, a sociologist, a theologian, a weekly columnist (50 U.S. Catholic newspapers), the author of 40-odd books and, of late, a celibate sex expert. He is an informational machine gun who can fire off an article on Jesus to the New York Times Magazine, on ethnic groups to the Antioch Review, and on war to Dissent. This year he will write his first novel-about Chicago's Irish. "He's obsessive, compulsive, a workaholic," says Psychologist-Priest Eugene Kennedy, a close...
...February, when Nixon still rode high, Morrow signed a $250,000 contract with William Safire for a book giving his insider's view as a speechwriter during the President's first term. Safire, the resident White House wit until he resigned to become a New York Times columnist last April, produced a 350,000-word manuscript, titled A Hurry to Be Great...
...headed by William E. Simon, then briefed 18 Governors on the crisis. He talked to Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, about his own ideas for a health insurance plan that would cover all Americans, but gave no details about timing or financing. He was moved by Columnist Mike Royko's report that a clerk in the Veterans Administration had decided not to pay for plastic surgery for Leroy Bailey, 31, of La Grange,Ill., whose face was shattered by a rocket in South Viet Nam in 1968. Nixon ordered that the VA reverse the decision...
...stroke; in Manhattan. Cannon grew up in New York's Greenwich Village and at 17 went to work as a copy boy for the Daily News on the lobster shift. He covered everything from wars to murder trials but eventually settled down to sportswriting, encouraged by Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon. A chunky bachelor, Cannon wrote mainly about big-league sport. He also recounted debates of bettors and bums like Two Head Charlie and The Blotter as they examined life's ironies after midnight on the side streets off Broadway. In columns beginning "Nobody Asked Me But . . ." he offered...
Also, New Times is not using its people well--two of its best, Studs Terkel and Nicholas von Hoffman, have yet to be heard from, while Bob Greene, an insignificant Chicago columnist, has already weighed in three times. The fleet of local correspondents does not seem to have been used much yet either, and they are potentially the magazine's greatest strength...