Word: schaap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journalists go, Dick Schaap has gone pretty far. He was city editor of the New York Herald Tribune at 29, and became a columnist for that paper less than a year later. He has written five newsbooks on his own, including Turned On, R.F.K., Mickey Mantle, and now, at 34, appears well on his way to becoming the single most prolific mass producer of new reading matter since Alexandre Dumas put his friends to work preparing plot outlines and sketching scenes-a bit of largesse that prompted a 19th century French journalist to remark: "No one has ever read...
...Schaap had no intention of becoming a latter-day Dumas when he agreed to edit the tape-recorded diary of a professional football player in early 1967. But when that exercise resulted in Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer, breaking sales records for a sports book (over 2,000,000 copies in print), Schaap took to buying his recording tape wholesale and signed up a whole new bibliography of authors...
INSTANT REPLAY: THE GREEN BAY DIARY OF JERRY KRAMER. Edited by Dick Schaap. 286 pages. World...
...Roadblocks. The News's dummy is standard size, with six columns instead of eight. It will publish five days a week and skip weekends so as not to compete with the Sunday News.* Likely contributors include Old Herald Tribune Hands Eugenia Sheppard, Dick Schaap and Judith Crist. The News hopes to avoid depleting its own staff and recruit almost entirely from the outside. So far, the Newspaper Guild has responded favorably. "We won't put roadblocks into the launching of the paper," says Guild Executive Vice President Tom Murphy, who is happy to have some new jobs...
...SCHAAP Vlaardingen, Holland