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...write plain English, Anglo-Saxon root words and short sentences for readers of the Times, who were suffocating on polysyllabic, Latinate English." If he had models, he says, they were E.B. White's "Talk of the Town" pieces for The New Yorker and his mentor at the Times, James Reston. Says he: "Reston taught the Times to write English...
...doing a weekly article for the Sun called "Window on Fleet Street," which attracted the attention of another old London hand, James Reston, then Washington bureau chief of the New York Times. "It conveyed a sense of London, what the melody really was," says Reston today. So he made the young man an offer, and in 1954 Russell and Mimi returned to Washington...
Tall, stately John Connally of Texas "looks like a President." So wrote stocky, rumpled James Reston in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago. Since the assertion was right out of the Political Writer's Handy Kit of Solemn Banalities, it could be conscientiously forgotten. It probably will not be, so the question lingers: What does it mean...
...known," he writes, "that not one god damn thing Amin had said had won my 'wide approval.' " It began to dawn on Kissinger that his ambassador was more than he had bargained for. Bit by leaked bit, the Secretary indicated his displeasure, until a rebuke via James Reston's column in the New York Times persuaded Moynihan that...
...paper together. I ought to know. I was there all week." Freddy Plimpton denied that her husband wrote a brilliant parody of Timesman Red Smith's sports column. Similarly, New Times Senior Editor Kevin Buckley denied that he and Frankie FitzGerald collaborated on the parody of Reston, and Tony Hendra, a former National Lampoon editor, denied that he posed for the photo of the Pope...