Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next week he goes off to Whitehall, Wis. (pop. 1,500), to be owner, publisher, editor and at times photographer, typographer and society columnist of the Whitehall Times (circ. 2,050). "With a little paper, I felt I could find the people-to-people relationship I wanted," he explains. "I wanted problems that I could look at, get involved in, have some immediate influence on. I wanted my kids to know the trash man and the banker...
...time Eagleton promised to telephone his doctors and ask them if they could make a statement about his health (he never did). While he was in Honolulu, there came another blow-which, in the unlikely event Eagleton survives, could well turn out to be what saved his candidacy. Washington Columnist Jack Anderson asserted on his daily Mutual broadcast that he had "located photostats of half a dozen arrests" of Eagleton "for drunk and reckless driving." "A damnable lie," Eagleton retorted furiously, and Anderson did indeed turn out to be wrong. After the Anderson disclosures boomeranged, Eagleton grew visibly more self...
...happens, Nixon's denial that the dikes were being deliberately bombed was backed up last week by a not-always-friendly source, Columnist Joseph Kraft. During his own current tour of North Viet Nam, Kraft reasoned that if the U.S. Air Force were "truly going after the dikes, it would do so in a methodical, not a harum-scarum way." Summarized Kraft: "I have to conclude from what I have seen that there is no deliberate American drive to bomb the dikes. But the dikes do run parallel to many roads. Some are close to railroad tracks and bridges...
Since 80% of the delegates were first-timers, some veteran political reporters found themselves bereft of old-line power-broker sources. "I've been covering these things for 20 years," complained Columnist Robert Novak, "and I don't know a soul here." But Novak and others had only to look away from the sea of fresh faces on the floor to find old hands like Frank Mankiewicz, Pierre Salinger and Richard Dougherty at McGovern headquarters, eager to brief newsmen on plans and tactics. "This convention's easier to cover," maintained Thomas Ross of the Chicago Sun-Times...
...There's only news enough for 1,500 of us," complained Washington Post Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman from Miami Beach last week, "but we are here 8,000 strong. We saturate this convention; nothing and nobody is safe from our starved searching for angles, oddities and inconsequential exclusives." Actually, Von Hoffman underestimated. More than 10,000 people had passes stamped MEDIA hung around their necks at a Democratic Convention that proved to be largely devoid of overt drama, and a sense of editorial overkill was inevitable...