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...Caribbean bureau chief covering such subjects as Central American revolutions and the Miami cocaine epidemic, McWhirter at first approached the assignment more as a fringe benefit than a job. Then he began to worry whether he was quite ready for a warm, wisecracking columnist whose chief concerns are the household gods. Says he: "Some journalists are fond of saying that the nice guys are the toughest, nice subjects the hardest. I didn't know: I could not remember the last time I had met one. What if I were to become the only person on earth to meet Erma...
...about someone as wonderful as Erma Bombeck-would I? Their injunctions were further reinforced by my seatmate on the flight to Phoenix and by the stewardess, who saw me studying up on Bombeck and who both told me how lucky I was to be traveling to the shrine of household humor...
Contributor John Skow, who wrote the coyer story, verified McWhirter's observations during his own visit to Bombeck's household. He was amazed, and appalled, by Bombeck's well-hidden efficiency: "She gets up in the morning, goes into her office and functions till 5," he notes. "She works on her column or her play, and they get done when she says they'll be done. That is terribly depressing to someone else trying to write." However, the two of them, each the parent of three children, did achieve instant rapport on the awfulness of adolescence...
...Stewart, 41, settles down at the typewriter four times each week to record household observations in the best Bombeck tradition. The difference is in the voice: Stewart has a much deeper one. D.L., who was known as Denny before legally changing his name to initials, is a liberated husband of 20 years and the father of four. In a Dayton Journal Herald column, he writes about the ordinary upsets at his tri-level home in the bedroom community of Beaverbrook, Ohio. Stewart has not always been one of the dinette set, however. In the beginning, he wanted to be another...
...address some long-standing internal impediments to their lobbying effectiveness. Common economic and political interests have begun to unity Chicanos (Mexican-Americans) and Puerto Ricans, despite their cultural differences Leadership is fomenting a new activism, at all levels of government. Never have so many Hispanic elected officials become household names...