Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three largest dailies have begun protecting their flanks against the invader. The afternoon tabloid Daily News (circ. 232,000) is about to hire six new reporters for its 85-member news staff. The self-consciously respectable morning Inquirer (circ. 412,000) has added more racing news and gossip. At the evening Bulletin (circ. 556,000), reporters say privately that pressure is on to be livelier and more competitive...
...black this year. Allbritton hired Bellows in 1975 from the Los Angeles Times, where he was associate editor, and Bellows revitalized the Star staff, modernized the typography, and concocted such popular features as a daily front-page interview with a newsmaker and "The Ear," a madcap, much-quoted gossip column...
Fidrych's account begins with his sandlot days in Northboro, Mass., and then relates his quick rise through the minors into major league notoriety. Only die-hard baseball enthusiasts will appreciate this prolonged session of baseball gossip. In fact, such fans will not only appreciate it, they will relish it. The tales of Stubby Overmire, John "The Grod" Grodzinski, the Appalachian League, clubhouse follies--after all, what could be more enthralling...
...being a Boston policeman. A well-heeled Cambridge architect came with several friends just looking for a good party. And a Paul Rever look-alioke claimed he owned a bar in Baltimore's equivalent to Boston's Combat Zone. Martin Slobodkin '41, premier Boston socialite, and Boston Globe gossip columnist Bill Fripp served as judges for several costume contests...
...score by Kander and Ebb is staunchly melodic; professionalism runs in this pair's musical bloodstream. Hollywood, California is a saucy spoof of the West Coast gossip queens, City Lights is a dithyrambic salute to New York, and My Own Space is a pensive, meditative ode to the beauty of possessing one's territorial declarative. Halston's costumes blaze like sun-kindled autumn leaves, and the dance team of three women and four men are, collectively, a card hand of sev en aces. One member of the chorus, Roger Minami, provides ebullient comic relief in Arthur...