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...investigative journalist who invoked the ire of the Nixon Administration for his reporting on Watergate in the 1970s, Edwin Guthman was never afraid to pursue a story. In the era of McCarthyism, he made his mark while working for the Seattle Times, where he uncovered evidence that a professor targeted by the state's Committee on Un-American Activities had been wrongly accused. His investigation not only salvaged the academic's career but also earned Guthman a Pulitzer Prize...
Other editors feel bound to run a writer's column completely or not at all, but they too pick and choose. "You get a little flak from older readers who want to read the same columnists every time," says Edwin Guthman, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, "but we pick the four best things every day. One of the problems is that so many write about the same thing." Adds Anthony Day, editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times: "We go by interest and topicality, not by name...
Despite all of the mayor's campaign gaffes and his administration's scandals, few people are willing to predict that Singer will topple Daley in patronage-padded Chicago. The reasons were succinctly stated by Jack Guthman, a lawyer and Daley stalwart: "The precinct captains work late in the campaign." Indeed, the machine still controls 44 of Chicago's 50 wards. As the primary neared, Daley organization workers were canvassing door-to-door to deliver him enough votes to win the Feb. 25 primary, which would virtually guarantee victory in the April election over a token Republican candidate...
...year. Neither Bobby nor Jackie wanted to read it because, as a friend said, it would be "far too painful." But they farmed out copies to five close friends, most notably John Seigenthaler, an ex-Justice Department aide who is now editor of the Nashville Tennessean, and Edwin Guthman, a former aide of Bobby's who is now national news editor of the Los Angeles Times...
...weeks later, the situation appeared even more serious, and Bobby finally released a rather limp announcement through Justice Department Aide Ed Guthman. It said that the Attorney General "wishes to discourage any efforts on his behalf in New Hampshire or elsewhere." At about that same time, New Hampshire's Democratic leaders woke up to the situation, began urging voters to write in Johnson as well as Bobby...