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Board Member Samuel Brittan, economics columnist for London's Financial Times, predicted that growth will rise from 3% in 1986 to 3.5% this year and push the unemployment rate down slightly, from 11.4% to 10.7%. Brittan hopes the pound will stabilize at more or less its current level. Further substantial declines in the currency, he said, could begin to put pressure on the British inflation rate by making imports more expensive...
...still a gamble to launch a new columnist on the nation's editorial pages. That is true even when the new man, A.M. Rosenthal, has just stepped down from editing the New York Times. Forget the power he once wielded; his words must now compete from scratch with other columnists' across the country...
...this he reflects an attitude increasingly common in newspaper columning, an ambition to personalize the news rather than to report and reflect on it. This requires a strong ego, the kind Rosenthal developed with his power as an editor. Ego seems to have come almost from birth to two columnists conspicuous for it, William F. Buckley and George F. Will. Buckley is the beneficiary of an oil-rich upbringing and a thorough grounding in Roman Catholic thought. Will's father was a college professor, and George was presumably encouraged to air his youthful opinions at the dinner table. After...
...television, newspaper columnists seem diminished stars among the power groupies in Washington. Will regards himself primarily as a writer, but it is his TV appearances that put him in the big money. Moreover, a columnist is expected to be pigeonholed politically. The Gannett chain advises its 92 daily papers to pick columnists whose views range a broad spectrum -- from Mary McGrory's spirited liberalism, say, to James J. Kilpatrick's avuncular conservatism. But positioning isn't always enough: even in the age of Reagan, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Norman Podhoretz have not built significant reputations...
This set-up is much to the chagrin of his wife Doris (Sally Kish), a babbling advice columnist who has cancelled her travel plans so she can get some last-minute coverage by a shrewish reporter (Jen Harris). Of course, as in all good farces, it turns out that she and everyone else in the play, including an acne-afflicted dermatologist (Andrew Osborne) and an abandoned son bearing gifts (Chris Reed), are secretly related...