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...Word may not yet have reached the provinces, but in this capital, Mr. Carter is being talked of as a one-term President " The same day in the New York Times, Wicker re-examined his score card and hit the panic button: "People who think and talk about politics are beginning to ask^each other openly: Is Jimmy Carter a one-term President...
...trying hard. So commentators began raising their voices. The trouble is that to those who dwell in Washington's echo chamber, the amplification ot their own and their colleagues' voices easily becomes further confirmation of what they have been saying. By mid-October, Tom Wicker was asking, "Is it yet time for those whc have wished him well to press the panic button about the performance of President Carter?" Wicker answered himself: "On this score card, the answer...
...reportedly $50,000. That sizable salary, and his early columns defending Nixon against Watergate charges, did not endear Safire to many Times colleagues. But readers found him a lively contrast to the paper's other, mostly liberal and often solemn political columnists-Anthony Lewis, James Reston and Tom Wicker. Safire's column is sent to about 450 papers that subscribe to the New York Times News Service...
...columnist occupies Wicker's old office at the paper's Washington bureau ("liberal ghosts in every corner"), but thinks up many of his columns at home, a 20-room, brick Colonial in Chevy Chase, Md. He lives there with his wife Helene, a former British model and pianist he met in New York in 1962, and their two children. Tall, relaxed and balding, Safire, 47, collects rare books and knows his way down a wine list. He batted out Full Disclosure in the mornings, without missing any of his twice-weekly columns. "This is my fifth book [first...
...magazines, have been providing for a long time. But this can be wrenching for serious newspapermen, of whom there are a good many at the limes. There some reporters and editors Complain that important news is playing second artichoke to investigative reports on vegetables and hot scoops on wicker furniture Newsroom cynics jest that it is difficult to get a story into the paper without a recipe attached. Others suggest that the Times augment Living with a weekly section called Dying, filled with obituaries and funeral-parlor ads, and launch a new insert called News. A hapless reporter...