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...Thomas hearings, she was probably best known for her 1987 disclosure that Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg smoked marijuana while a law professor at Harvard. The subsequent furor compelled Ginsburg to withdraw his candidacy. A Boston University dropout, Totenberg graduated from the women's page of the Boston Record-American to the now defunct National Observer. She was fired from the Observer after writing a story that contained quotes she lifted from the Washington Post. Since joining NPR in 1974, Totenberg has earned a reputation as Washington's best at covering the federal courts, although critics consider her abrasive...
...graduation, Garrett went to graduate school in city planning, with the goal of somehow changing society. "The atmosphere of those years must have rubbed off on me," Garrett said. But he decided that he didn't want that type of career, so he started working at the old Boston Record-American as head office boy. After a year of running errands, Garrett got a break and started writing for the paper...
...source of funds essential to continue newspaper operation." He explained that "efforts to find a buyer for our newspaper willing to undertake the burden of three-newspaper competition in the Boston market" had failed, and the sale to the Hearst interests, which publishes the Boston Record-American, a daily tabloid, had been financially expedient...
...that the Record-American is taking over the Herald's plant at 300 Harrison Avenue, I suppose they'll ask the city government to change the names of the streets--Herald Street and Traveler Street--that abut the plant. I hope they do not erase these two tiny monuments to failure, and if they do I hope someone will say for us all. "HUB SCORNS NAME CHANGE, LAUDS FOND MEMORY...
...Hearst Corporation publishes the Record-American and the Sunday Advertiser...