Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston Reporter Johanna McGeary, who filed on the America's Cup races for our SPORT story written by Associate Editor Frederic Golden, had only one previous run-in with sailing. While in the Peace Corps in Panama, she sailed with San Blas Indians in a wooden dugout canoe equipped with a flour-sack sail. Arriving in Newport not knowing a boom from a bilge pump, she quickly picked up enough expertise to follow the final trials. Says McGeary: "I decided to pass up the chance to sail in the America's Cup press regatta scheduled for the first...
...season, Asner had given Lou three dimensions: he was still a comic figure, but he was also a lonely, somewhat self-destructive man. Now Asner takes the character still further. In the new series (billed as drama, not situation comedy), Lou has left Minneapolis for a job as city editor of a Los Angeles newspaper. To Lou Grant, the disheveled loner, Asner now adds Lou Grant, the self-assured, two-fisted journalist...
...Hogwash!" counters James Hoge, editor in chief of Chicago's Sun-Times and Daily News. "If you don't vigorously go after the story, people say you're lazy. If you do, people say you are picking on the people involved. You just have to continue to dig and print what you think is newsworthy." St. Louis Post-Dispatch Reporter Thomas Ottenad thinks reporters had no choice but to go after Lance, especially after the comptroller's report pronounced him innocent only of actual violation of law. "There were things in there that cried...
When I asked an editor at the New York Daily News this summer what he knew or remembered about Ring Lardner, his eyebrows went up in an arch, and looking off into the distance, he said, "Lardner, now there was a fine journalist...
...died in 1933, we are told, feeling as though he had not reached his full potential: "When he saw what he had created, he felt cheated; his talent was too limited and so was what it produced," Yardley says. Lardner, despite the encouragement of Fitzgerald and Max Perkins, an editor at Scribner's, never wrote a full-length novel. When he died of tuberculosis at the age of 48, his work had petered out and he was writing purely to make enough money to support his family...