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...revisionist look at a nation's beginnings. Two recent books became bestsellers by taking just such a view, each portraying the revered Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in a new and unflattering light. Last week Virginius Dabney, a proud Virginian, historian and retired editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, came to the defense of the founding fathers in an outspoken Charter Day address at Virginia's venerable College of William and Mary. He sharply assailed Fawn Brodie, author of Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, and Gore Vidal, who wrote the historical novel Burr, for pretending to sound scholarship...
Enraged, Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, went to court. There, evidence made it clear that the file-in-New York story-plus a rule that the consumer himself could not read the summary or even touch it-were standard O'Hanlon techniques for dealing with inquiries. In addition, O'Hanlon's investigator, who earned $1.85 for his efforts, actually interviewed only one neighbor and failed to verify what he was told...
...flurry of speculation was touched off when the Press Trust of India issued a story stating that Brezhnev had temporarily "taken leave of his responsibilities." Misinterpreting this dispatch, the French news agency AFP reported that Brezhnev had actually resigned. This sent Moscow-based correspondents scurrying round the capital, vainly trying to obtain confirmation. Just as the resignation rumors were subsiding for lack of evidence, another one surfaced when an unidentified Communist diplomat in Warsaw was quoted as saying that Brezhnev had suffered a heart attack last month-just before he vanished from public view. Some Kremlin watchers favored yet another...
...state, evidently had no disagreement on the desirability of such a "signal of American determination"--though Brown, who after all lacks Kissinger's training as a historian, did not specifically suggest that the Gulf of Tonkin should have been the task force's destination. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported--the State Department has denied it--that Kissinger's proposal had to be overruled by Ford himself, on the grounds that it would "needlessly" arouse concern in the United States. When the man who led the fight against Congress's ending the bombing of Cambodia is reported to wield...
...traveled 30,000 miles around the country to track down 45 participants in the My Lai massacre. However, he failed to peddle the story to several national magazines because he was relatively unknown and the story seemed so incredible. Finally, David Obst, manager of the Dispatch News Service, a loose confederation of anti-Establishment freelancers, broke the story by selling it to 36 papers in the U.S. and abroad. In 1972 the New York Times, which had once turned down Hersh, hired him as an investigative reporter...