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...bombed out of television"). O'Hara has no use for President Johnson ("An uninspiring, uninspired man, whom no one loathes and no one loves"), or Bobby Kennedy ("There is something pathetic about a man who turns on the charm when he has none"), or the general run of newspapermen ("Only the game of politics contains more men who are afflicted with venality, envy and gutlessness"). In the course of a year's column writing, he also managed to drub Hubert Humphrey, Elizabeth Taylor, John F. Kennedy, Dean Rusk, Pearl Bailey, James Baldwin, Bishop James Pike, balletomanes, Abraham Lincoln...
...Scilly Isles just off the tip of Cornwall. The Wilsons have always found the Scillies a grand spot for a quiet holiday, but this year, now that he is P.M., Wilson's outing in the sparsely populated isles has looked like a political junket, with all those sweating newspapermen tailing him around, and Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart dropping over from the mainland to talk statecraft. It's even getting so that members of the local Scillonian Club are feeling nervous about calling him "Harold" anymore. Returning from a twelve-day honeymoon on Marco Island, off Florida...
...fact of his survival, of his self-made "success" in a field nearly strangled by deception and cowardice. May be continue to crusade somewhere between Galahad and William Randolph Hearst, at least until this country spawns another old-style rebel. May he continue if only because, for us young newspapermen deciding what giant publication we'll sell out to, his raucous one-man-band makes sweet, sweet music...
Reporting, not ranting at the President, is the name of the game, wrote Hearst's National Editor Frank Conniff last week. "We happen to think the White House news staffers are perfectly capable of covering their beat, most of them being first-class newspapermen. And if they can't or aren't, it's the fault of the editors who sent them there, not of a President, who really shouldn't be expected to understand the complicated psyche of a newspaperman...
Early the next morning, a CBS news program reported that the shower marathon had begun. Wideman was still in bed then. Later, he rose--and, undaunted by the imminent arrival of newspapermen--attended classes as usual...