Word: kempton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most outraged was the conservative Chicago Tribune. "This is the cheapest sort of opportunism," it said. "Not since the days of Aaron Burr has the country been treated to such an example of unbridled personal ambition." Just as incensed was Liberal Columnist Murray Kempton of the New York Post. Kennedy, he wrote, had shown nothing less than "cowardice" by agreeing to support Johnson before the New Hampshire primary. With the returns in and L.B.J. bloodied, Kennedy is "just as much a coward when he comes down from the hills to shoot the wounded. He has, in the naked display...
Several people are writing up their trips: Sir Francis Chichester his sea adventures, Murray Kempton his sojourn in several American cities, Dan Wakefield a lengthy odyssey taken to find out what Americans think of Viet Nam, Norman Mailer's views of last October's protest march to the Pentagon...
...drastically tone down every last one of them. The magazine went out of its way to emphasize that the changes involved only 1,600 words out of 60,000, and Editor in Chief William Attwood of Cowles Communications, the magazine's publisher, told New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton: "We gave up some slush; a little gingerbread's off the top, but the structure's intact." The fact remained, however, that Look's editors had fought hard to preserve the gingerbread-and that, in the end, Jackie took it away from them. After the Look negotiations...
...changes, including a switch to Herald Tribune body type, readers should have no trouble recognizing the old Journal-American and old World-Telegram in the new World Journal. Except for Murray Kempton and one or two others, most of the two papers' apparently inexhaustible supply of columnists will somehow find elbow room. In editorial command will be the kind of balanced ticket (Irish, Jewish, Italian) that is the delight of city politicians: Editor Frank Conniff, now Hearst national editor; Managing Editor Paul Schoenstein, now Journal-American managing editor; and Assistant Managing Editor Louis Boccardi, now World-Telegram assistant managing...
...consist largely of Harlem's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell. Other New Yorkers recall Franklin's five years in Congress, where his absenteeism was to become a campaign issue in 1954. Republican Jacob Javits flattened him in their contest for state attorney general, which prompted Columnist Murray Kempton to write last week: "Roosevelt and his sponsors must hope that enough people remember his father and mother, and have forgotten him." Paul Screvane was much milder. Said he of Frank Jr.: "He is a very decent fellow, but I don't know how much he knows about...