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...from such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and TIME (former chief political correspondent Michael Kramer is Brill's No. 2 editor). Washington Post media critic (and author of Spin Cycle) Howard Kurtz will be a contributor, as will former FCC chairman Reed Hundt and humorist Calvin Trillin. Brill has even hired an in-house ombudsman: former New York Times editor Bill Kovach, head of the Nieman journalism fellowships at Harvard, will critique Content's own articles...
...instance, I'd be mentioned in one of his rants about press accounts implying that Kennedy's Harvard intellectuals were decamping, abandoning the White House to a bunch of Texas yokels: "It's just a damned lie is what it is. Why, I got this little ole boy, Trillin, who wrote me a brilliant speech called 'The Spirit of St. George.' Smartest little booger you'd ever hope to meet. He can write circles around those Harvard pissants...
...next to a reference to some extemporaneous ramblings he had delivered on the campaign trail--yet another version of what we speechwriters used to call his county-commissioner speech--I'd find a footnote by Michael Beschloss, who edited the tapes, saying, "Technically, this speech was written by Calvin Trillin, but, since what L.B.J. said bears absolutely no resemblance to the text, Trillin is not considered responsible for the war in Vietnam or any other national catastrophe...
...must agree with Calvin Trillin's comment in "High on Experimentation" [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 19] on the silliness of Republican Representative Susan Molinari's disclaimer that she only "experimented" with marijuana. The only sillier statement would be "I didn't inhale." BOB BERRY Hillsborough, California...
...everything comes easily to Trillin, 60, who lives in a Greenwich Village brownstone with his wife Alice. His new column, he worries, is slightly shorter than the one he is accustomed to writing. As a result, he modestly warns, "the readers are going to have to get their profound thoughts somewhere else." That, as Trillin admirers well know, is only allegedly true...