Word: gourley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steals my purse steals trash," said Shakespeare, but who steals my trash-ah, that can be a treasure of sorts, at least for the imaginatively trashy National Enquirer. Under orders from his editors, Reporter Jay Gourley, 27, lifted five green plastic bags of refuse from in front of the Georgetown home of Nancy and Henry Kissinger and put them in the trunk of his 1968 Buick. Alert Secret Service agents and police promptly swooped down on him, and it took 21/2 hours of argument before Gourley convinced them that the trash by law constituted abandoned property and was there...
...Gourley later sorted his haul and deduced that Henry or Nancy or both 1) smoke Marlboros, 2) use patent medicines, and 3) sometimes throw away the New York Times unopened. He is saving other weighty conclusions for a treatise the Enquirer is doing this week. Says Gourley, "There are things in Kissinger's trash that I think he would rather people didn't know about...
Government agents daily carry off sensitive material from the Secretary's Georgetown jetsam before it reaches the curb. The State Department, however, announced that Nancy was "anguished" and the Secretary "really revolted." The home-town Washington Post decried Gourley's trash-can investigation as "indefensible-both as journalistic-practice and as civilized behavior." Later in the week a Palm Beach, Fla., Post reporter pawed through garbage bins at the National Enquirer's headquarters in nearby Lantana and came up with a revealing two-year-old memo from Publisher Generoso Pope Jr. exhorting his troops: "Prod, push...
Andrews designed Gund Hall for the architectural firm of Andrews, Baldwin of Toronto, Canada. Gourley, who has won five other national awards in the past, designed the faculty housing for the firm of Ronald Gourley, Carleton R. Richmond...
...Ronald Gourley and John H. Andrews '47 are among 12 American architects who will receive the AIA's National Honor Award for 1973. Both men received their Master of Architecture degrees from Harvard's Graduate School of Design...