Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more bountiful. They have found small seams of giddy gold in Carter's racy Playboy interview, Earl Butz's scurrilous remark, Ford's East European gaffe. If such breakthroughs continue, the contest might yet get something risible visible. "Voter apathy may be peaking too early," deadpans Columnist Bill Vaughan of the Kansas City Star. Adds Boston Globe Cartoonist Paul Szep: "I had to scrounge around for topics, but then in the last few weeks the goofs have been so numerous that my cartoons now come naturally." Among them: a Soviet soldier asking a comrade...
...that if Common Cause and the New York Times had been around in 1776, "Thomas Jefferson would have had to change the Declaration of Independence to read, 'We pledge our lives, our sacred honor, and up to $1,000' "-finds the current state of campaign humor "dreadful." Columnist Robert Yoakum polled nearly three dozen White House correspondents for their opinion of Administration humor. Not one rated the Ford funny bone favorably, and Washington Post Reporter Lou Cannon placed it "slightly ahead of the Federal Register and somewhat behind the Congressional Record...
...demoralized and deteriorating under the California sun, attempts to equate Fitzgerald's happiness with the $1,250 paychecks he received in 1938 from MGM. Dardis gives a blow-by-blow account of how Fitzgerald secured his contracts, but almost completely omits Fitzgerald's much talked about affair with syndicated columnist Sheilah Graham, along with the rest of his non-working life. By "valuing things rather than caring about them," a habit which Fitzgerald said is typical of Americans, Dardis limits the scope and interest of his book. The numbers loom large and impressive while the figure of Fitzgerald casts practically...
Died. Leonard Lyons, 70, Broadway columnist who chronicled the mots and mores of New York celebrities for four decades; after a long illness; in Manhattan. Born on the Lower East Side and trained as a lawyer, he began his column, "The Lyons Den," in 1934; during the '50s he was syndicated in more than 100 papers. From early afternoon to dawn six days a week, he would prowl New York nightclubs, theater openings, restaurants and bars to gather anecdotes. Though his renditions were often flatfooted, Lyons was trusted by movie stars, moguls, authors and athletes to get their stories...
WHILE HE RILES against the Boston press as "maggots," he likes reporters and blames only editors for his troubles. "Nobody wants to print the fuckin' truth," he says. Although they had never met, Dapper had an ongoing feud with the elegant Boston Globe columnist, the late George Frazier '32. "He's where he belongs," O'Neil says. "I pissed on his grave one night...sure, I was sober.... He was a fag with that fuckin' flower...