Word: schaap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into reportage and published some of the first so-called New Jourrialists, most notably Tom Wolfe. On the old New York Herald Tribune, where he edited the Sunday magazine that was to be reincarnated as New York, he gave free rein to such emerging stars as Jimmy Breslin, Dick Schaap, George ("Adam Smith") Goodman. Many of the best and the brightest have left in rage and frustration-or on the wave of New York-borne success. Felker, says Ms. editor and Felker protégée Gloria Steinem, is "the lightning rod of animosity-and of creativity...
...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...
...Guys Finally Won). He has been sitting in the city room since June 13, belching forth morale-boosting obscenities, and writing lively front-page impressions of such local scenes as an unnamed bureaucrat's failed seduction of a coworker. Breslin will be followed next month by Sportscaster Dick Schaap, and in the fall by Writer Nora Ephron and New Journalist Tom Wolfe. Most of those celebrities were attracted not so much by the money ($500 a week) as by their long friendship with former Trib Colleague Bellows and by the Star's fight for life. "The Star...
...Beaver Falls (pop. 14,404), the youngest of four sons of a Hungarian-born steel puddler. Joe is sincere about his deep family ties. In his autobiography, / Can't Wait Until Tomorrow...'Cause I Get Better Looking Every Day (written in collaboration with Writer-Sportscaster Dick Schaap), Namath proudly observes: "When I was growing up, my mother was a maid in Patterson Heights, the fancy section of Beaver Falls. At night, she'd stay up late, cutting down my brothers' old baseball and football uniforms to fit me. Now my mother lives in Patterson Heights...
...Liebling Counter-Convention, a journalism conference to end all journalism conferences. Among participants in the 14 panel discussions are Gay Talese. Tom Wolfe, Renata Adler, James Aronson, David Halberstam, Dick Schaap, J. Anthony Lukas, Nat Hentoff, Jack Anderson, Martin Nolan, Joe McGinniss, Charles Goodell, Studs Terkel, Jimmy Breslin, Murray Kempton, Pete Hamill, Nora Ephron, Blair Clark, Erwin Krasnow, Leonard Schecter, Jim Bouton, Charlotte Curtis, Gloria Steinem, Jack Newfield, I.F. Stone, and Seymour Hersh. Noon-8, April 23 and 10-8, April 24. Martin Luther King Labor Center, 310 W. 43 St., New York. Open to the public and free...