Word: dan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telephone calls from the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other publications. If the inquisitors had been familiar with the weeklies, they would have known that the letter, like much else that appears in the papers, was a fake. The missive was the handiwork of Dan Rattiner, 35, who publishes the six summer papers and two others (a total of 64,000 giveaway copies a week) and has a good time doing...
...raised $3,100 from local merchants and launched the Montauk Pioneer, his first free-distribution summer weekly. Today Rattiner owns a local printing firm, an advertising agency, a messenger and delivery service, as well as the eight weeklies-all of which he runs from his three-story gray-shingled "Dan's Papers Publishing Tower" on Main Street, Bridgehampton...
...Dan's Papers rarely stray into the crabby waters of hard news, but for years Rattiner has been campaigning to save the 1795 Montauk Lighthouse from demolition. The lighthouse was finally designated an official landmark, and this month a citizens' group presented a proud Rattiner with a plaque inscribed IN APPRECIATION. Notes Rattiner wryly: "For what, it doesn...
Schorr receives few thanks for what he does. "When he gets something," says a CBS colleague, "people don't come around and say, 'Great job, Dan,' as they might do for others around here. They say, 'Oh Jesus, Schorr's got another scoop. How do you think he did it?' " Which may explain why Schorr still sees himself as a gritty print reporter in an electronic jungle: "I'm just a refugee from newspaper work with a few tricks, wandering around in a TV world where there aren't many people doing...
...call liberals. California's Governor Jerry Brown is, like Coolidge, applauded for his verbal brevity and his fiscal austerity; Brown deprived state employees of their government-issue briefcases (to cut both expenses and paperwork) and suggested that the University of California administrators take pay cuts. Illinois' Governor Dan Walker notes with pride that he has trimmed the state payroll by 5,000, and his big pitch is on the need to live within one's means. Massachusetts' Governor Michael Dukakis rides the trolley-subway to work and has a vegetable garden in his front yard...