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Consternation and even outrage from his new colleagues greeted William Safire when he joined the New York Times as a columnist in 1973. Safire was triply suspect: he had come directly from White House speechwriting for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, for whom he had coined press-baiting phrases like "nattering nabobs of negativism"; he was an aggressively conservative Republican at the generally liberal Times; and he was a writer scarcely versed in journalism who for nearly two decades had been pursuing careers in television production and public relations. Recalls Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "Almost everybody on the paper...
...hunt demands both resilience and resourcefulness. Says Michael Grady, a Brighton, Mass., pediatrician who owns about 800 signed covers: "I pursue autographs the way reporters go after stories." When Columnist Drew Pearson (1948) turned him down, Grady reminded him that journalists themselves depend on perseverance. Pearson signed. Arthur Kaminsky, a New York City attorney with 750 covers, addressed one unsuccessful request to "Ayatullah Khomeini, Tehran, Iran...
...said he did not want ballots cast for him just because he is white. "I want neither money, help nor conversation from those people," he declared. "Tell them to get lost." Despite the specter of substantial white crossovers to Epton, Washington remains the clear favorite. Wrote Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko after the upset: "Eeek, the next mayor of Chicago is going to be a black man. Let's all quiver and shake. Oh, come on. Let's all act like sensible, adult human beings."- By Susan Tifft. Reported by Christopher Ogden/Chlcago
Creeping about in the undergrowth is not the style of the Daily Mail's influential gossip columnist Nigel Dempster. He claims that he attends many parties that royals do, and when he is leaving he sees Whitaker in the bushes. He insists that he is not a royal-watcher but a "social policeman." About the time that Whitaker diagnosed anorexia, however, Dempster indulged himself with a lofty and fairly encyclopedic denunciation of Diana's faults. It was he who said that she was spoiled, fiendish and a monster, that she was spending too much money on clothes shaming the nation...
...favorite recreation was fox hunting. Consider that now: a President pounding over the hills on horseback, his hounds in full cry after a scraggly fox. Environmentalists would have jumped out at him from behind every hedge, waving placards. A "save the foxes" society would have been organized. Columnist Ellen Goodman would have rushed to detail the plight of the ill-fed, ill-housed, ill-treated foxes of Fairfax County. Newsmagazines might have noted that photographs of Washington mounting his horse revealed he had wide hips. The temptation would have been too much: "President Washington, displaying a broad beam...