Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Schorr, the former CBS newsman who leaked a House Select Intelligence Committee report to the press, on his new career as a syndicated columnist: "I must overcome too much exposure as a story and get back to being a reporter...
...poor taste for the New York Times to reveal that C.L. Sulzberger had been cooperating with the CIA for years, one day, and have him write his farewell column the next. Surely they could have let the old boy go quietly. They'll never find another columnist so willing to reveal his luncheon partners after all. "As the Prime Minister said to me just the other...
Prominent among the doubters is Mike Royko, whose syndicated Daily News column is the city's chief journalistic export - and a favorite Madigan target. Madigan has pilloried the Daily News and its rivals for burying an account of the columnist's arrest last winter in a barroom brawl, an incident Madigan recounted in loving detail. The radio scold frequently delights in picking Royko's nits. The columnist last month reported that Mayor Bilandic, in firing Consumer Sales Commissioner Jane Byrne, had also fired her secretary, the mother of six children. The secretary, Madigan pointed out, was merely...
...their lives." In Atlanta, says Jean Thwaite, food editor of the Constitution, "it's a real challenge and a status symbol to come up with something your company hasn't tasted before, something they don't even know how to pronounce." In Palm Beach, according to Skippy Harwood, food columnist for the Daily News, "there's nothing more chic right now than a small gourmet party prepared by the hostess, instead of her staff...
Seattle has almost none of the hassles and almost all of the amenities of many bigger American cities. As Post-Intelligencer Columnist Emmett Watson remarks, "The people of Seattle, like every place else, are into punk rock, tofu, lifespring, frozen yogurt, est and diet beer. People here are using words like parenting, ambience, trendy and psycho- babble." They also, quite often, are using words like symphony, museum and pro football...