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...union. Their plea was nolo contenders and they were each fined $3,000, more than half of the $5,000 maximum in a case of this kind. No where was there the slightest evidence that Humphrey had taken any special interest in the Ewald case. He answered the Trib story in a word: "Bunk...
...York in September, hopes to be staffed largely by Negro and Puerto Rican reporters; its editors decided that convention week was an ideal time to get started. It was edited for the occasion by Dick Tuck, an incorrigible prankster who delights in bedeviling Republican presidential candidates.* The Trib reported that the only "swinging" convention in town was being held by Negro morticians. Robert Miller, who had just been named Mortician of the Year, had a ready explanation. Unlike the Republicans, he said, "We got a lot of real work to do. We just can't be making...
...Trib also ran a description of the convention as it might have been written by Norman Mailer, who was covering the event for Harper's. "Mailer," began the Tribune in the third-person style of the author's The Armies of the Night, "came to Miami Beach with a great sense of Dread. He saw John Lindsay right away and that gave him a sharper sense of guilt because his article had elected Lindsay mayor in 1965, and Lindsay had turned out to be an adequate square. He had no existential dimension. By then it was time...
...lists William Henry Hylan as a CBS network vice president; Hylan went to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1963 and has been there ever since. August Heckscher appears as a writer on the New York Herald Tribune; Heckscher, now New York City parks commissioner, left the Trib in 1956, and the newspaper closed down two years...
...election in Turkey. Without necessarily consulting each other's notes, both confidently predicted that the left would make impressive gains. Come election day, it turned out to be the conservatives that triumphed at the polls. On another occasion, the Friendly bylines were inadvertently switched by the Trib, putting Senior momentarily in Nigeria, Junior in Israel. And then there was that day last month when Junior managed to produce two bylined pieces for an edition while Senior contributed one. "That's the best we've done so far," says Senior...