Word: reddick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bothered Brethren. To many Washingtonians, Moyers is one of the squarest guys in town. Because of his Baptist credentials, his cottage-cheese complexion and Sunday-school propriety, he is likely to have trouble shedding the Eagle Scout image. Yet, insists Dr. DeWitt Reddick. director of the University of Texas Journalism School, where Moyers was a straight-A student: "There's nothing sanctimonious about him." And, press critics to the contrary, he was never a Boy Scout...
...Cowles sold out for about $2,000,000 to Lammot Copeland Jr., son of Du Font's president. The paper has resumed its old name and much of its old flavor. Russell Quisenberry is back, as board chairman. The new publisher is a self-styled "Constitutionalist" named Ben Reddick, a public relations man who ran the triweekly Newport Beach News-Press so haphazardly that the Audit Bureau of Circulation was moved to comment in 1961: "The condition of the circulation records made an ac curate audit for the previous 24 months impossible...
...Reddick is a gung-ho type of a vastly different style from Cowles. A man of strong conservative views, he has declared himself glad with Goldwater, distrustful of foreign aid, suspicious of the Negro civil rights revolt. He is now on the lookout for "a good Constitutional columnist. I'd give my right arm to have Fulton Lewis...
Meanwhile, the Times has fallen back on its old unpredictable ways. Its new character is best illustrated by a piece written by Ben Reddick himself. "Today is today," he trumpeted. "Progress is wonderful. Toot! Toot...
...police in St. Louis, Liston is an incorrigible troublemaker. "He's a bad man," says Detective Sergeant James Reddick. "He hangs out with a bunch of dogs." To his onetime comanager, Monroe Harrison, he is "vicious all the way." To some sportswriters, he is too mean to be permitted in the ring. Wrote Gene Ward in the New York Daily News: "The world has too many hoodlums in high places as it is." Yet to the Rev. Edward P. Murphy, a Denver Catholic priest who befriended him, Liston is "a man of tremendous potential...