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...quickly, hoping after weeks of indictments and political tightrope-walking, to be lost in the crowd. He had built the new stadium as much as anyone, profited more than most. Cunningham was general counsel to the Yankees as well as party chairman, and there were those (most cogently, Jack Newfield of the Village Voice) who said maybe he had mixed his functions, more than a little. "The stadium is going to cost the city $24 million and six judgeships," New York's city council president had said in 1971. On opening day, 1976, Cunningham had been indicted...
...after it was founded by George A. Hirsch, 41, who had quit as publisher of New York magazine in a dispute with Editor Clay Felker. Hirsch assembled a staff of contributors that read like a Who's Who of liberal and "new" journalism: Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Jack Newfield, Mike Royko, Dick Schaap and other print celebrities. That was a mistake. When they found the time to produce, the results were too often lightly researched, ill-organized and self-indulgent...
...sure to attract reader interest. With a little experience in working together, New Times's colorful crew should throw some brighter parties in the future. -Before the first issue went to press, two writers whose names had figured prominently in Hirsch's promotional efforts defected noisily. Jack Newfield, an investigative reporter and assistant editor of the Village Voice, and Pete Hamill, a New York Post columnist, demanded that their names be removed from the masthead. Along with Studs Terkel, who remains as a contributor, they sent a letter to New Times's other contributing editors complaining about...
...Crusader Newfield is particularly irked by the way Hirsch raised money. The Chase Manhattan Bank was one of the large investors. Newfield is "troubled by the presence of Rockefeller money in a magazine that pretends to be liberal or radical." (A principal owner of Newfield's paper is Millionaire S. Carter Burden.) Newfield also accuses Hirsch of failing to give the contributing editors-who are to receive shares of stock in addition to fees-a full explanation of the company's financial scaffolding and of special arrangements made with Breslin and a literary agent representing some...
Probably the only issue which Newfield and Greenfield feel should be a component of a 1972 populist strategy, that McGovern plays down, is crime in the street. While addressing blue-collar audiences, McGovern buries the issue into the middle of his speech. He refers to drugs and crime only when discussing ways the U.S. could use the $7 billion it spends each year on the war in Vietnam. Yet crime control is certainly not a major component of a populist program. Economic issues are, and McGovern certainly does deal with these questions...