Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Newsweek was raked by Columnist Anthony Lewis of the New York Times and by Ombudsman Robert McCloskey at Newsweek's sister publication, the Washington Post. Lewis said Newsweek had been either "gullible" or "shameless." He wrote: "The cover story raised the possibility of fraud. But it went on for pages about the historical significance of it all. And it said: 'Genuine or not, it almost doesn't matter in the end.' It matters a lot." McCloskey argued: "The impression created [by Newsweek] with the aid of provocative newspaper and television advertising was that the entire story...
...authentic was Ellery Sedgwick, then 56. One of the most respected men of letters of his day, he was married to a Cabot and had graduated from Groton and Harvard. The conspirator who befuddled his judgment was Wilma Frances Minor, then 42, an attractive former actress and a columnist for the San Diego Union. She claimed that the letters had been handed down through the family
...losses from $2.4 million to $300,000. Nonetheless, last week Kinsley gave up one of the most visible jobs in magazine journalism for one of the more anonymous: starting in September, he will replace the revered Richard Strout, who retired at 85 after four decades as the pseudonymous TRB columnist for the weekly New Republic (circ. 96,000). Said Kinsley: "Some people think I am crazy, but writing a column is a journalist's dream, and this one seems to come open once every 40 years...
Michael E. Kinsley '72, a former Crimson executive, resigned as editor of Harper's magazine yesterday to join The New Republic as the weekly journal's new "TRB" columnist...
...York Times Columnist Russell Baker, a 1979 winner in commentary, for his autobiography Growing...