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...rights to John's account of life with Nixon, and the same publisher's undisclosed advance to Mo for her version of life with John. Then there is John's lecture tour, which starts Feb. 2 at the University of Virginia. Eventually, says his agent David Obst (who also set up a $1 million take for Woodward and Bernstein), "Dean stands to make as much as Woodward and Bernstein each made from All the President's Men, which is now the hottest paperback in the country." While Nixon and others whose downfall he encompassed have...
...Hersh picked up a tip and traveled 30,000 miles around the country to track down 45 participants in the My Lai massacre. However, he failed to peddle the story to several national magazines because he was relatively unknown and the story seemed so incredible. Finally, David Obst, manager of the Dispatch News Service, a loose confederation of anti-Establishment freelancers, broke the story by selling it to 36 papers in the U.S. and abroad. In 1972 the New York Times, which had once turned down Hersh, hired him as an investigative reporter...
...head of an American intelligence agency turns out to be working for the Russians. The book was not widely noticed, but the agency communicated its displeasure to the author. Undeterred, Marchetti decided in the spring of 1972 to tell all-or almost all. An enterprising literary agent, David Obst, who is also the agent for Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (see THE PRESS) and Daniel Ellsberg, held an auction for the rights to Marchetti's book. Alfred A. Knopf
Freelandia's corporate decisions will be made by a board of directors to be elected as soon as there are enough members. Right now Moss, Flynn and journalist David Obst, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the My Lai massacres, form a provisional government of sorts. Obst is also on the board that directs contributions to charities made with Freelandia's occasional profits...
...David Obst of the Dispatch News Service, calling from Washington," he told about 50 editors in the U.S. and Canada. "I've got a story I think you'll be interested in." Most of the editors responded with remarks like "What's that agency again?" Obst persisted, asking $100 if the story ran. Some 35 newspapers (including the Chicago Sun-Times, the Milwaukee Journal and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) printed...