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James Brady, who broke the story in his New York magazine gossip column, reported that Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger had been pressured by relatives to acquire some Republican counterweight. As Brady told it, Sulzberger's cousin, Editorial Page Editor John B. Oakes, was angry over the top-level interference (Oakes denied it). The principals would not comment on the report that Safire would be making $55,000 a year-a lot of honey for a cub columnist. Quips Safire: "I'm going from one organization to another, and both are equally leaky...
...marriage to Antonella Piaggio, whose family makes Vespa motor scooters, broke up three years ago partly because of her active social life. To relax, Umberto spends weekends sailing off the Sardinian coast, where he keeps a home, often with Girl Friend Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto, a first cousin of Gianni's wife...
...Crimson devise of writing an unsigned "communication" to the paper so that he could comment editorially on his own letter. Football became an obsession for the next several years; culminating in 1907 S in a campaign to save the sport, which seemed in danger of imminent death. FDR's cousin Teddy came to the Union to express his support for the game, and the paper used his speech as the linchpin of an editorial campaign. The editors canvassed the University with postcards, and received overwhelming support for the continuation of intercollegiate competition. A petition kept at The Crimson offices...
Utter Chaos. Carmela Lacayo, 29, an American teacher and former nun who had been visiting her cousin at his home just outside the city, rushed downtown to help. There, she told TIME, she found a scene of "utter chaos: people running in the streets screaming, others digging frantically, trying to unearth trapped relatives, still others ripping up their pajamas to use as bandages. One young mother walked in the street clutching her dead baby to her chest while her husband strode zombie-like at her side." Next day, the city was under a pall of smoke and red dust. Thousands...
Davis follows his man step by step through law school and into a job as law clerk with the prestigious New York City law firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. Young Roosevelt soon began telling fellow law clerks that he planned to follow in Cousin Theodore's footsteps. The first step was a seemingly hopeless contest for the state senate. But F.D.R. won as a progressive Democrat -thanks largely to the gusto of his campaign-and immediately plunged into a dangerous scrap with Boss Murphy's Tammany Hall over the selection of a U.S. Senator. Some of the book...