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...Starr should have cut a licensing deal for his report. One of Washington's new power eateries, McCormick & Schmick's, says cigar sales at its bar are up 110% since the report appeared. A tourist paid $250 to take home 25 Macanudos as capital souvenirs. Meanwhile, sales of Oy Vey! The Things They Say, a book Lewinsky gave Clinton, have quadrupled...
Gannett's Pulitzer-winning investigation required a commitment of time and resources that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. Three reporters, William F. Schmick, 38, John M. Hanchette, 37, and Carlton Sherwood, 32, were detached from regular duties for nine months to find out what had happened to money raised by the Pauline Fathers for a national shrine. The reporters traveled to 17 states and four foreign countries and ran up nearly $100,000 in expenses. They finally loosed an 18-part, 40,000-word series alleging that the order squandered a substantial portion...
...Very unethical," huffed News American Publisher Mark F. Collins. "Plagiarism at its highest form." William F. Schmick Jr., president of the Sun papers, responded that the News prizes affected the commonweal and were therefore public information. "We think that people are entitled to know what they're worth," Schmick said. News American officials are muttering darkly about legal moves, but the Sun's counter-gambit has beefed up its circulation and given Baltimore losers double prominence...
Died. William Frederick Schmick Sr., 79, former president and publisher of the Baltimore Sun papers; of a stroke; in Daytona Beach...
...Schmick Jr., who has served as executive vice president since 1953, has been chosen to succeed his father as president." So saying, the Sun dropped the subject, confident that Baltimoreans, accustomed to the unhurried. 123-year continuum of their favorite newspaper, would accept the change in command without losing any sleep. Baltimoreans...