Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is why some of the parents of the men of C Company found their deeds so incomprehensible. "Why did they have to take my son and do that to him?" asked Mrs. Myrtle Meadlo, mother of Paul David. "I raised him as a good boy, and they made a murderer out of him." Paul's father, Tony, had a more forceful view. "If it had been me out there, I would have swung my rifle around and shot Calley instead ? right between the goddam eyes. Then there would have been only one death." Others prefer not to face...
...account of the Republican Convention last year, Norman Mailer made a grudging observation: "A man who could produce daughters like that could not be all bad." David and Julie Eisenhower are still moving wholesomely in the background. But startlingly, Tricia, who once seemed shy and reticent, has emerged as a luminous blonde who turns up playing hostess at a White House Halloween party or holding hands at Manhattan's "21" with Eddie Cox, a young Eastern liberal lawyer who used to work for Ralph Nader's Raiders...
D.N.S. was started a few months ago by two 23 year olds, David Obst, who has the title of general manager, and Michael Morrow, its only fulltime staff writer. Obst acknowledges that the service has a left-of-center tone, but he adds: "This is not an antiwar news service, but rather a pro-truth news service." The son of a Los Angeles advertising man, Obst marketed the Hersh story with chip-off-the-old-block hustle. He sat down with a copy of Literary Market Place, which carries the phone numbers of newspaper editors, and started making calls...
...David Obst of the Dispatch News Service, calling from Washington," he told about 50 editors in the U.S. and Canada. "I've got a story I think you'll be interested in." Most of the editors responded with remarks like "What's that agency again?" Obst persisted, asking $100 if the story ran. Some 35 newspapers (including the Chicago Sun-Times, the Milwaukee Journal and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) printed...
...another column, Baker reported that "we are at NBC News headquarters in Provo, Utah. Chet Huntley's face is in the hands of the cosmeticians. They have massaged its familiar wrinkles and laugh lines into an expression of utter objectivity." Meanwhile in Biloxi, Miss., David Brinkley is having his eyebrows shaved so he can't raise them...