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Three days before her election in 1970, says a former aide, "she calls me on Sunday morning at 7:30. I hear a roar: 'How dare you sleep? This is the candidate!'" When she first came to Washington, she phoned another staffer at 2 a.m. and bellowed: "My toilet is overflowing. There's s- on the floor. What are you going to do about it?" The turnover in her office is high. At times, however, Bella displays a maternal sensitivity; once she saw that her tirades were raining acids on an aide's ulcer and immediately...
Today and the News compete frenetically with each other, adjusting their play of various stories from one edition to the next to upstage, knock down or merely copy the opposition. Occasionally, says a Today staffer, "We've dropped our main story to pick up the Daily News lead story, and we've found in the second edition that they have picked up the story that we have dropped and dropped the story that we have picked up. It's fantastic." On a recent day, Today's first edition front-paged HUNT TWO IN SUBURBAN CRIME SPREE...
...women?put the show together. Gilroy meets with his staff each morning to discuss the booking of guests. In his office there is a huge display of file cards listing the guests' names; the cards are shuffled constantly to produce the best mix ("A good dinner party," says one staffer). "Talent coordinators" are then assigned to prepare brief dossiers on the guests. At one time, Dick demanded considerable solid research, but he found that it worked against him: he was referring too often to his notes while the conversation got ponderous. He now requires less material and feels that this...
Patience Pays. The News first tried Secret Witness in 1950, but public apathy killed it. One staffer who never gave up on the idea was Boyd Simmons, then a reporter and now an assistant managing editor. Simmons, 58, revived the program and runs it personally. The program has been .a good circulation promotion (the News, at 653,000, is the biggest afternoon paper in the country) as well as a widely praised public service. "One of the reasons this program has succeeded is because there's just one man-me-dealing with the police," Simmons says. "The danger...
Hilliard's appointment is popular with his all-white editorial staff of 133. His colleagues are convinced that competence, not color, won him the job, in which he is unchallenged boss of the newsroom. "We simply appointed a city editor," says an Oregonian staffer. "Not a black city editor. Just the best...