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...heart of the probe are two perplexing questions. Have post-Watergate reforms designed to shield the IRS from political abuse unintentionally allowed corruption to flourish by exempting the agency from proper oversight? And is the agency, headless since Commissioner Lawrence Gibbs resigned at the height of the tax season last March, using those reforms to prevent the subcommittee from delving into the wrongdoing...
Come Friday nights, the boisterous gang congregates at the neighboring bars, the Hawaiian, the Whistle Stop or the Red Lion (a pseudo pub), to swap leg- pulling tales and practice one-upmanship by inventing sidesplitter headlines. Billy Burt, editor of the Examiner, proffers the classic example of HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR as the quintessence of a tabloid art form. Balfour opts for convolution: THE TOASTER POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL or, better, THE DOG THAT SHOT ITS OWNER. All voice serious concern that unimaginative headlines -- GIRL, 11, BECOMES GRANDMOTHER -- are replacing zany eye-catchers -- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS USED MAP PREPARED...
...Veteran Jane Amsterdam to the top slot at one of the last bastions of no-holds-barred, spit-in-the-eye tabloid journalism, the Post's owner, Real Estate Magnate Peter Kalikow, presented her with a T shirt emblazoned with the paper's now legendary April 15, 1983, headline HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR. As earthy Post newsroom veterans (uncomfortably adorned in ties and jackets) were introduced to their new boss, many wondered if Amsterdam, of late an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, one of the toniest book publishers in the country, was up to the job. Says Amsterdam...
...Mama dead when she lost her head? Last week the Riverside County coroner's office, after performing toxicologic tests on Dora's headless body, classified her death as homicide. The coroner asserts that Mrs. Kent was injected with barbiturates, which hastened her death. Alcor officials maintain that the barbiturates were administered immediately after she was clinically dead to "act as a preservative and insulate the brain...
...Harvard men's volleyball team rode like the headless horseman into Newark, N.J. for the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Invitational on Saturday...