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EVERYONE HAD WEIRD NICKNAMES, and they spent their afternoons conversing in bars, the talk often sentimental and always funny. He was kind to them--maybe he realized that his life could well have been spent behind a Seven & Seven, not a typewriter. But the paunchy columnist who wrote sad humor like no one else ever will could not bring himself to admit that even New York had its share of unredeemable scum, that bum was a nice word for derelict, that plenty of criminals were vicious, not loveable. And, in his whole menagerie, there was one character he never drew...
...police force features a sentimental cop, name of 'Ankles,' because he keeps the peace by kicking transgressors in the ankles with his size 14's. This is, after all, what you'd expect; Hamill is, as they say at Aqueduct, out of Breslin by brother Pete Hamill, the barroom columnist for a "newspaper" called the New York Post...
...emphasize the Government's role in industrial policy, former White House Adviser Amitai Etzioni, a renowned sociologist, coined the word reindustrialization. That jawbreaker was given cachet by Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft and quickly became a favorite of Capitol Hill trendmakers...
...story was written by Senior Writer Lance Morrow, whose distinctive TIME Essays have attracted something of a following among readers. Columnist William F. Buckley has described Morrow's style as a blend of "pyrotechnics and lyricism." Says Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, who edited this week's story...
...trademark front-page features. "They're letting some writing get into the paper that doesn't sparkle," says Michael G. Gartner, a Journal Page One editor in the early 1970s and now president and editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Still, Warren Brookes, economics columnist for the Boston Herald American, expresses the widespread judgment in the trade when he says: "It's the best-written and most intelligent newspaper in America today...