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...founded by George A. Hirsch, 41, who had quit as publisher of New York magazine in a dispute with Editor Clay Felker. Hirsch assembled a staff of contributors that read like a Who's Who of liberal and "new" journalism: Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Jack Newfield, Mike Royko, Dick Schaap and other print celebrities. That was a mistake. When they found the time to produce, the results were too often lightly researched, ill-organized and self-indulgent...
...William E. Simon, then briefed 18 Governors on the crisis. He talked to Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, about his own ideas for a health insurance plan that would cover all Americans, but gave no details about timing or financing. He was moved by Columnist Mike Royko's report that a clerk in the Veterans Administration had decided not to pay for plastic surgery for Leroy Bailey, 31, of La Grange,Ill., whose face was shattered by a rocket in South Viet Nam in 1968. Nixon ordered that the VA reverse the decision...
...Times really doesn't have to perform so poorly. Among its contributing editors are some of the best and most progressive journalists in this country: Marshall Frady, J. Anthony Lukas '55, Joe McGinniss, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel and Nicholas von Hoffman. In addition, the magazine lists some 66 correspondents scattered around the country--most of them apparently younger journalists in places like Richmond, Va. and Bozeman, Mont., many of them working for small, independent local weeklies. If its masthead were any indication, New Times would be covering a variety of interesting and important local stories with sensitive and informed understanding...
...conspiring to obstruct justice in inves tigating the facts of the police raid, in which the killings were presented as "self-defense." Arlen surrounds his tri al narrative with the atmospherics of Chicago. But it is mostly offhand, as if Arlen knows, as the reader knows, that Mike Royko has done Richard Daley better and Norman Mailer got Chica go down much better five years...
...interview with Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko, Agnew was unusually outspoken. He said that if he became President he could scarcely outperform Nixon in foreign affairs, but on the domestic scene, he had "some ideas." He faulted the Administration for abandoning various programs without devising better ones to replace them...