Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressures for the President's resignation grew within the G.O.P., Ford carried on with his routine duties. He met with a group of Japanese legislators, then with officials of the National Association of Home Builders, and gave two long-scheduled interviews, one to Syndicated Society Columnist Betty Beale...
...sorry to say it, but I'm not the bearer of good tidings," St. Clair began. Then he explained the nature of the new evidence, which was soon to be described as more than the long-sought "smoking pistol" and actually, in the apt phrase of Columnist George F. Will, akin to a "smoking howitzer." St. Clair said flatly that he had been ready to resign if Nixon had opposed release of the material. "I have my professional reputation to think about," he explained, adding that any other action would have been to withhold evidence of a possible criminal...
...himself under permanent siege, he conjured up even more enemies than he actually had. In the face of criticism, he was inclined to retaliate savagely, living under constant temptation to show up his enemies, to "get them" before they got him. After his 1972 triumph, when New York Times Columnist James Reston asked whether Nixon's smashing re-election would lead to reconciliation with his enemies, a White House aide replied: "The President does not want to make peace with his critics. He wants them to admit publicly that they were wrong...
Hemphill is a former columnist for The Atlanta Journal who, since going freelance a few years ago, has become one of the people who interprets the South for the magazine-reading public. It's a position similar to that of travel/adventure writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the people who would go off to Africa and the East and return with reports of dark and exotic lands. People who write about the South for a national audience seem bound to weigh in with a series of set-pieces. There's the New South, the Changing South...
Died. Lois Long, 73, fashion editor of The New Yorker for more than four decades; in Saratoga, N.Y. A minister's daughter, Long joined The New Yorker in 1925 as "Lipstick," its chatty nightclub columnist. Soon she began pointedly commenting about Fifth Avenue's ladies-wear trade in "On and Off the Avenue," a column that for years she simply signed...