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...BOILED HER BABY AND ATE IT," read the full-page headline on the front of a recent Boston tabloid. Everyone who picked it up had the same reaction: they saw the lipstick-red banner head at the top, they read the teasers running down the left-hand column ("Toilet paper beauty linked to Teddy's past? page 3"), and they said this is it--the Boston Herald-American has sunk to an all-time...
...show's upcoming guest star, Alan Swann (O'Toole), a faded but still popular swashbuckler whom Benjy idolizes. His task is not an easy one: a man who keeps flasks of 12-year-old scotch sewn into the lining of his coat. Swann has a propensity for appearing on tabloid covers in morally dubious positions...
However correct in law, Fagan's acquittal prompted public expressions of outrage and raised the possibility of legal reform. Home Secretary William Whitelaw said a change in the law of trespass may be considered to make it possible to charge trespassers with criminal penalties. Said the tabloid Sun: "Next time you are walking along the Mall and feel thirsty, why not pop into Buckingham palace for a glass...
...seemingly inevitable end for a politician whose life had gone badly awry. Richmond's woes had been attracting tabloid headlines for years. In 1978 he was arrested in Washington for sexually soliciting a 16-year-old delivery boy. In spite of that, he handily won re-election that year and again in 1980. Last January, however, the Justice Department, acting on a federal civil suit that revealed financial improprieties with the Walco National Corp. of New York, which Richmond controlled, began an investigation of the Congressman. Last week Rich mond, 58, pleaded guilty to tax evasion, possessing marijuana cigarettes...
Unless Smith chooses to repeat her confession for the police, she probably is in no more jeopardy now than before the Enquirer article. Indeed, her lawyer says she may file suit against the tabloid, which Smith claims misrepresented her. In any event, says Booth: "You can't get a criminal filing based on what's in a newspaper." If you are Cathy Smith, though, you can get some attention...