Word: waterfronts
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...White's editors decided that shipping wasn't sexy, abolished the beat, and shunted him off to the hinterlands of the suburban Westchester edition. Disillusioned, White quit to become a free-lance writer. In True Bearing, 24-year-old Henry Williams is the last of a long breed of waterfront reporters of a great New York newspaper ("a behemoth, a giant rising twenty-two stories over Sixth Avenue") who, after falling in love, of course, quits to become a free-lance writer when his beat vanishes and he is faced with the impending transfer to the "Verve" section...
Zipping through Boston last week as part of a four-city tour, White emphasized that the novel (his first) and its characters are fiction. But his bitterness at the turn the paper has taken, especially the new sections, and at the end of the waterfront reporter tradition, still lingers. "Aside from the South Bronx, the decline of New York Harbor is the most important untold story in New York Cityy right now," White said over coffee at Tommy's Lunch...
Blunt-mannered Helen Delich Bentley, 56, wife of an antiques dealer, covered the waterfront for 16 years as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. Her salty language and dukes-up style endeared her to dock workers. She once punched a stevedore in a bar when he compared her nose to a ski jump. Her expletives-undeleted report from the tanker Manhattan, during its 1969 voyage through the Northwest Passage, caused her to be banned from using the ship's radio...
From 1960-67, Logue served as the development administrator of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). In those eight years, he built Government Center and the new Boston City Hall, laid out the plans for Quincy Market and extensive developments along Boston's waterfront, spurred numerous private developments in downtown Boston, and constructed thousands of low-and moderate-income housing units in urban renewal areas that covered 25 per cent of the entire city...
...ubiquitous and often intrusive microphones in the Joe Louis Arena not only broadcast both true and false details of the bargaining but influenced the actors trying to shape history in the glass-walled suites of the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, which towers above the city's scenic waterfront...