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DIED. IRV KUPCINET, 91, longtime Chicago Sun-Times gossip columnist; in Chicago. From its debut in January 1943 to its final appearance just four days before his death, "Kup's Column"--often reported from his de facto office, a booth in the Pump Room at Chicago's Omni Ambassador East Hotel--chronicled, with a gentle, often adoring touch, the lives of Hollywood starlets, local politicos, tycoons and princes...
...January 20th Kup's show, Boston TV Channel 44, Kupcinet asked the Reverend Jackson about a request from the mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek. The mayor had asked the Reverend Jackson to speak to the governments of Ethiopia and Sudan to allow rescue of the Black Jews, Beta Israel, remaining in Africa. The Reverend Jackson said he would look into it but that it was a very delicate matter...
...Jeff Jacobs, 30, as the best of the 2,017 entries. Jacobs called the tune "simple, adaptable." New Chicago Mayor Harold Washington rejected it, calling it slow and none too spunky. Now Jacobs is not getting the prize money, and the weary committee must reopen the competition. Said Essee Kupcinet, head of the committee: "I can't face listening to another song." Washington said he prefers a lyric filled with the names of famous Chicagoans. Right on, mayor. For starters...
Irish terrorists. "The Irish, they're pigs," snapped Margaret, and then blurted, "Oh, you're Irish." That version of their talk, reported by Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet, created an international furor. Byrne diplomatically recalled the conversation as having had something to do with Irish jigs. London sources insisted that Margaret, if she used pigs at all, was referring only to terrorists...
...many of us with great experience in the field, it still has not been proved that there was a test-tube baby. For all we know so far, the baby could have been conceived by natural means." According to an interview with Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet, Blandau further charged that Steptoe had "violated med ical ethics by selling his story to the National Enquirer, supposedly for $650,000, instead of publishing his story in a scientific journal." He also blasted Steptoe for giving "false hope to millions of women because he has not revealed how many failures...