Word: scoop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SENATOR Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington State is a perplexing study in political paradox. He gaily dismisses his frequent hawk label: "I'm not a hawk or a dove. I just don't want my country to be a pigeon." Still, Jackson remains one of the most rigid supporters of President Nixon's Viet Nam policies. He still firmly believes in the domino theory of Southeast Asian politics and, as far as the rest of the world goes, he is convinced of the ultimate malevolence of the Soviet Union's global intentions. President Nixon thinks...
...Though Scoop (the nickname came from an old cartoon character) humorously refers to himself as "an official non-candidate," he most certainly would like to be President. He is also frank about his chances. "I can read the polls," he says. "I can see how far out front Muskie is." If Muskie should stumble along the way, though, party leaders are bound to note that Jackson's disparate views give him as wide an ideological appeal as any other current Democratic hopeful now commands...
Newhall also had a tremendous drive to be first and constantly left the Examiner far behind in covering the "post teen-age youth world" and watching the radical movement. Nothing pleased him more than scooping his arch rival. His biggest scoop in recent years was the Chronicle's exposé of San Francisco County Tax Assessor Russell Wolclen. The paper disclosed that Wolden gave favorable tax assessments to his friends, a crime for which he was later convicted. When the Chronicle and the Examiner merged in September 1965, much of Newhall's competitive drive was diverted into conflict...
When Tennessee Williams stepped off the S.S. President Wilson last week after a three-month Pacific cruise, he had a scoop for the San Francisco Chronicle: he had just completed his last "long play," "a tragedy with humor" about "alienation." But from now on, he vowed, his work "is going to reflect the society around me"-particularly the new family structures. "I don't think I could live in a commune myself, or even what they call a 'triangular' marriage-you know, one guy with two chicks. I'm too jealous by nature." As for allotting...
Died. Harry Romanoff, eightyish, one of the last of Chicago's Front Page-style reporters; in Chicago. "Romy" became famous for the telephone impersonations that often enabled him to scoop rivals without ever leaving the city room. Consider his coverage of the 1966 Speck murder case: as soon as he heard the news, he called the house where the eight nurses had lived, identified himself as the coroner, and pumped a cop on the scene for all details-minutes before the real coroner appeared...