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...events of the day had been boxed into news stories and the stories had been read loudly over the telephone to the newsrooms back home. The reporters headed in various directions: some to get drunk; some to hear the President tell an evening rally of suburban Republicans in Nassau County how he was planning to subvert the Constitution in the coming week...
...MISSED the last press bus to Nassau County, so I never made it to the rally. But I was able to describe it in my news story the next morning as if I had been sitting in the front row. Reporting the news is big business and one service provided by the newsmakers for their media retailers is the pre-packing of news events in advance. I had been given a copy of Nixon's evening speech shortly after he first arrived at Westchester airport that afternoon. I knew what he was going to say, so I put excerpts from...
Rutgers-Princeton: This one ranks high on the list of unimportant games today. Princeton lost to UConn in a scrimmage, 10-7, and you can bet Jake's had those Tigers working their tails off, so to speak, since then. So, Ol'Nassau...
...fortune; in a plane crash; near Aspen, Colo. The son of Barbara Hutton and the second of her seven husbands, Reventlow devoted most of his time and much of his $25 million inheritance to his passion for racing. Though he mockingly described himself as "a playboy," his win in Nassau's 1958 Governor's Cup Race-in a car he both designed and drove-established Reventlow's reputation as a serious competitor. His love of auto racing and his refusal to give it up led to divorce from his first wife, Actress Jill St. John...
...Anne DeNapoli was a discouraged liberal arts student at Nassau Community College on Long Island. "I really felt that I was accomplishing nothing," she recalls. "I was learning things, but nothing that I could use in the future." She dropped out of college to enroll in Katharine Gibbs School, which promised her secretarial skills that would enable her to get a job immediately after graduation...