Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps it could only happen in the strange land of Chicago journalism, but there it was. One of the city's top editors was leading a drive to raise money to defend Chicago cops against charges that they had beaten up reporters during the Democratic National Convention. Although some...
When the Chicago police department began to discipline some of its patrol men for their part in the convention dis orders, Mabley took up the cops' cause in his well read daily column. A 30-year veteran of writing sports, television and freewheeling general commentary for Chicago newspapers, Mabley...
Meanwhile, Chicago cops and out-of-town journalists also were still clashing in a month-long trial of 13 demonstrators charged with disorderly conduct for failure to obey police orders to stop their march toward convention hall. Among them was New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton, who testified that he...
SDS repudiates him unequivocally as if Collins was some kind of different rebel fighting a different war. Ronald Janis moans about how Collins will upset the applicant and bring down repression on our heads. Surprise, surprise! In California, college radicals have their phones tapped and play dangerous games with plainclothes...
And if the Guidebook's humor ever sags, that insider's advice, as glossy as the cover, just keeps zipping along. The inquisitive high school senior learns that Penn calls its abnormal psychology course "Nuts and Sluts." Harvard calls informal dinner talks in the Houses "tables," and Princeton calls university...