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...betcha there are a lot of risks," Proctor told the Newsday newspaper. "The test will be whether they can manage their way through them...
...Newsday column written in the midst of a city budget fight, reporter Dennis Duggan quoted an insider in then-New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins's administration as calling Proctor a "loose cannon...
Comprising 70-odd pieces from such journals as the New York Post, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic and the current home of his column, New York Newsday, Kempton's book calls forth a cavalcade of heroes and scoundrels of the past 50 years and more -- among them Benito Mussolini, F.D.R., Richard Nixon, Bessie Smith, Karl Marx, Goya, Roy Cohn, Cassius Clay and one Stella Valenza, a housewife on trial for "hiring three mechanics to rid her of her husband, Felice." To Kempton, the insignificant deserves as much attention as the momentous; he gives the auctioning...
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...moved in with him soon after he got out of jail in 1989. He had served 20 months for overselling ads in store coupon books under the alias David Creditford -- "a con man who thought he was smarter than anyone else," a defense attorney recalled to New York Newsday. Stevens reputedly suffered from emotional instability -- at his 1987 trial he launched into a speech about Jimmy Cagney. More seriously, in 1992 local merchants Susan Katz and John Spinelli filed a police complaint when, they say, after nine months of harassment that included cruising their block and stealing their garbage, Stevens...