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Even more objectionable than the proposed wage reform was the industrial-relations expert who was selected to negotiate it−Fred Straw. Peach describes Straw as "a hatchet man," and even John Owen concedes that he was a rather aloof, overbearing man who gave the unions the false impression that "shock troops of management were coming in to sort things...
Boring and pretentious. Where is Tom Wolfe now that we need him? Ten years ago, as The New Yorker ever so quietly celebrated its 40th birthday. Wolfe uncorked a two-part profile of the magazine that sent its editors and friends off muttering about hatchet jobs and "parajournalism." Wolfe's article ran in New York magazine, then the Sunday supplement of The New York Herald-Tribune. His first installment was headlined "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of The Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of The Walking Dead!" It was a great piece, nasty and accurate. "The Ruler of 43rd...
...back in Manhattan last week, where he is still trying to sell his phony Hughes book as well as a new novel. Edith, 39, will stay and paint in Ibiza. But even if the Irvings have not settled all their differences, Clifford has managed to bury at least one hatchet in Ibiza-with Elmyr de Hory, 63, the master art forger. The subject of Irving's 1969 book called Fake!, De Hory was offended when Irving failed to show him the prepublication manuscript as promised...
...month examination by three Globe staffers, begun before Kennedy withdrew from the 1976 race, was not a hatchet job. The liberal paper has always been sympathetic to Kennedy, yet felt that it had to go ahead with the story despite the Senator's decision to bow out as a national candidate. Said Editor Thomas Winship: "We are not out to drive Ted Kennedy from office. We are trying to get more details on an important story affecting a public figure who will continue to be important." The biggest obstacle in obtaining those details was the continued silence of most...
...first fun in this sort of riddle is to see how far the similarities go. Sister Walburga and Sister Mildred, the Lady Abbess's co-plotters and hatchet nuns, are obviously Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Peripatetic Sister Gertrude, who phones in nightly from Reykjavik or Mombasa and, in a German accent, recommends the study of Machiavelli, is our very own Secretary of Snake. Sister Felicity seems to be an unstable amalgam of George McGovern and John Dean...