Word: patching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James G. Bellows is known among his friends these days as "the Red Adair of journalism," a Mr. Fixit summoned to patch up ailing newspapers, or at least light up their declining days. As the last editor of the New York Herald Tribune, Bellows breathed temporary vitality into that doomed daily. As most recent editor of the Washington Star, he turned a newsprint morgue into a laboratory of editorial innovation. But Bellows, 55, has never faced a task as daunting as this: on Jan. 1 he will become editor of what may well be the worst big-city newspaper...
...least, as December rolls in and the first snow lies mushy on the ground, and you've already slipped on a patch of ice and landed on your ass, cursing because there's no escaping the fact that Cambridge Winter is here and because, baby, it's cold outside--I say, at the very least--you can comfort yourself with a wide selection of excellent December folk music around Cambridge...
...years; the nine pages Woods' outlining the banning until conditions October of 1982 still sit on his study desk beside his children's report cards. The beginnings, at least, are outwardly pleasant, like an unexpected family vacation. Eventually there will be finan cial problems. The Daily Dis patch will continue to pay his salary as editor, but he will lose the income from a nationally syndicated column that helped syndicated column that helped pay the school bills for five children. The Woodses will still enjoy the trappings of upper-middle-class life: a big, sunny home with leaded...
...latter kind are easily identifiable by the fact that when kickoff time is five minutes away, there is still enough food left to feed all of Winthrop H entry, enough bologna to fill a delicatessen, enough cole slaw to fill a cabbage patch, and at least one homemade...
...everyone else around; dour Secret Service agents in double-knit suits mumbling to one another through microphones hidden up their sleeves. At the center of the hubbub, surrounded by a phalanx of plainclothesmen, was "the Man"-bald, stocky and distinguished by the world's most famous eye patch...