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...subject was a natural one for Rosenblatt, a onetime Washingtonian who admits to ambivalent feelings about the capital. Before coming to TIME in July, he lived in Washington for seven years, working as director of education for the National Endowment for the Humanities and, more recently, as literary editor of the New Republic and as a columnist for the Washington Post. In the summer of 1979, Washingtonian magazine named Rosenblatt the city's "best columnist." "I didn't always write about Washington," says Rosenblatt, "but you can't work as a journalist there without automatically becoming interested...
Carter's men credit the change to his time in office. "There is no doubt in my mind that experience is the most priceless asset of all. Every day you do better," says White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler, the lawyer who is the only Washingtonian to have cracked the President's inner circle...
...House decision followed months of controversy over PBS's ambitious plans to pack high-tone ads-Tiffany & Co., Cuisinart, Merrill Lynch-into its new nonprofit publication and use any "surplus" revenues, a euphemism for profits, for public-TV programming. Last July Washingtonian (circ. 101,000) magazine Publisher Philip Merrill asked the Federal Communications Commission to stop the Dial's four sponsoring stations -WNET in New York, KCET in Los Angeles, WETA in Washington, WTTW in Chicago-from giving the magazine free on-the-air promotion. The Dial, he argued, will compete against other magazines at an unfair advantage...
...York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Gannett newspapers and many others. The New York Post got a head start with a turgid, unrevealing nine-part series. In the past few months he has been on the covers of Newsweek twice, the New York Times magazine, Look, PEOPLE, the Washingtonian, the Boston Globe magazine. With Jimmy Carter getting the worst press of his presidency, Kennedy's "coquettish noncandidacy," as one writer called it, has become the hottest political story around...
...does a British-born Washingtonian become a popular gossip columnist syndicated in about 30 papers across the country? She scrounged a job in the Washington Star's classified ad department and rose through the ranks. Wait. We hear she was fired from that spot...