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Since the turn of the year, movie advertising in the Trib has dropped by more than...
Next day Shawn called Whitney again, asking him not to print the story. He also placed a total of four calls to Trib Editor James Bellows and rang up other editors, hinting of a libel suit or an injunction. Then he tried to phone Whitney again. Instead, Shawn got Whitney's wife Betsey, whom he lectured about the Trib's irresponsible journalism...
...this enterprise was lavished on the kind of iconoclastic article that readers have come to expect from the Trib's lively Sunday magazine and one of its liveliest writers, Tom Wolfe, 34. Breaking all the rules of clean, lean journalism, Wolfe writes in a buoyant, overstuffed, baroque style filled with grunts and guffaws; participles and expletives that fly in all directions; metaphors that are launched, mixed and sometimes hopelessly scrambled...
Here to Stay. City officials grumble predictably that the Republican Trib is politically motivated, that it is trying to undermine Mayor Robert Wagner in an election year. But Managing Editor Weiss contends that the timing of the series is coincidental; last year the Trib ran an equally hard-hitting series on conflict-of-interest scandals in the Republican-controlled state legislature. "By definition," says Weiss, "we don't talk about the good things in such a series...
...mayor's aides told Gottehrer: "We know as long as we don't answer back, you're eventually going to go away." But the Trib has no intention of going away. It plans to continue the series indefinitely, hopefully provide New York with the kind of sustained city coverage it sorely needs...