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...best that the paper can offer on Watergate is a hearsay account of the forthcoming book by Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; the headline is ominous ("Another time bomb ticking away under the White House"), but the text offers no dynamite ("Insiders hint that Bernstein and Woodward make no new startling disclosures in their book...
Appearing to speak at schools, Post staffers customarily receive standing ovations before they utter a word. Such celebrity for print journalists is unprecedented, but so is the story to which the Post led an indifferent nation. Thanks largely to the tireless digging of Watergate Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Post's work on the nation's worst political scandal has won awards beyond the staffs counting. But obscured by Watergate is the Post's broader challenge to the New York Times for national preeminence. Under Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, 52, the Post has tripled...
...other spurned outsiders were Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who exploded the Watergate story a year and a half ago. Crouse emphasizes that they had both been condemned to the city desk at The Washington Post before they took the assignment. "Their motivation," he writes, "sprang from desperation as much as ambition...
...Died. Woodward Maurice ("Tex") Ritter, 67, country-and-western singing star; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Term. A deep-voiced Texan, Ritter was best known for throaty, twangy recordings of such country classics as You Are My Sunshine, Jingle, Jangle, Jingle and of the theme from the 1952 western High Noon. As a singing cowboy, Ritter also played in 70-odd western films, mostly during the '40s; later he appeared on TV's Zane Grey Theater...
...awarded $356,000 in damages. The Sentinel (circ. 35,000), which has promised an appeal, argued that a verdict for Dunn would end criticism of local officials by newspapers. Ironically, one of the two reporters who wrote the offending story has since taken on national officials with impunity. Bob Woodward joined the Washington Post and, with Carl Bernstein, blazed an investigative trail through Watergate...