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...James Gannon, editor of The Des Moines Register and a participant in the same panel on primaries versus caucuses, agreed with Scheer and said that the candidates "really weren't running on issues" in the recent Iowa caucuses. Gannon described the Iowa caucuses as "a great big circus...
...persuade people to take him seriously is the predicament of the ten-term Republican Congressman from Illinois as he pursues the presidency for the first time in his life. By most standards, he should be a top contender. James Gannon, executive editor of the Des Moines Register, calls Anderson a "silver-haired orator with a golden tongue, a 17-jewel mind and a brass backbone." Respected on Capitol Hill for his courage, he was one of the first Republicans to call for the resignation of Richard Nixon. Senator Robert Dole, a long-shot rival for the G.O.P. nomination himself, says...
...Register contains a lot of the bright, breezy writing of the sort found in the Wall Street Journal, which is not surprising since both Gartner and Executive Editor James Gannon are Journal alumni. Reporters are encouraged to write imaginatively about offbeat and humorous subjects. After two weeks in Cedar Rapids, for example, the new Register bureau chief filed a delightful yarn about how the city's street plan made it impossible to go north. This kind of creative license adds to the esprit de corps in the newsroom. Says Managing Editor David Witke: "For many of the people...
Thomas H. "Chip" Gannon '50, won three letters in football, three in basketball, and one in baseball. He reminisced with classmate John G. Caulfield '50, star second baseman for Crimson baseball. "You know, Chip beat Yale in 1948. That's right, he hit a home run in that game to win it, 2-0," Caulfield said...
...Gannon smiled and said, "Football was my sport, though." He coached football after graduation, and the records he set for punt return yardage and pass interceptions at Harvard still stand on the books...