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...successful campaign to get Radcliffe students access to Lamont Library.HER LIFE AND TIMESGreenhouse’s long career at the Times began when, only a month after graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe, she became the first female clerk to renowned columnist James B. Reston.“I think I owe my job to the war in Vietnam,” Greenhouse says. “The guys were not free to take jobs like that because they would be drafted.”Greenhouse describes entering The New York Times’ headquarters...
DIED. WILSON PICKETT, 64, volatile R&B star whose gravelly, raunchy delivery on such 1960s hits as Mustang Sally and In the Midnight Hour inspired the 1991 film The Commitments and helped earn him the moniker Wicked Pickett; of a heart attack; in Reston, Va. Despite drug and legal battles, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer remained inventive and determined, answering the disco craze with explosive live performances, which he continued until shortly before his death, and meriting a 2000 Grammy nomination for It's Harder Now, his first album in a decade...
...Vienna and Moscow before going to Washington to cover the State Department, the White House and the CIA. So when the position of Washington bureau chief opened up, Frankel coveted the post. When he lost out to Tom Wicker, Frankel resigned. "But, Max, think of the platform," implored James Reston, the Times's Washington columnist. "Can you really give up the platform?" Frankel withdrew his resignation. This child of the Times could not bring himself to leave his family...
...influence. As TIME's Thomas Griffith once put it, he modulated the page's "Ugh, Big Chief Has Spoken" voice, leavening its ponderous eminence with impish wit ("Helsinki, Schmelsinki," proclaimed a skeptical editorial on the 1975 human-rights accords). Now the family man can look back and thank Reston for his advice. Max Frankel stands on the highest step of the Times platform, possessor of one of the most powerful jobs in American journalism...
...York Times’ Washington bureau chief, Scotty Reston, hired Halberstam, bringing him out of the South again...