Word: writer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your writer etched Ethel Kennedy's many-faceted character with great care, pointing out the trivia, triumphs and tragedies of her rich life. Missing only was a reference to a personal relationship with the late Dr. Martin Luther King. Politically and psychologically, the two families had much in common, with sudden death to both fathers and husbands forming some kind of emotional tie. Thanks again for an excellent study of a complex, beautiful woman told by a writer who shows the rarest of gifts: loving concern for his subject...
...teacher, and when the general marched victoriously into Paris, Pompidou watched the parade from the sidewalk, one spectator among many thousands. He liked what he saw, and arranged through a friend to join De Gaulle's staff. He soon came to the general's attention as the writer of succinct position papers...
Admitting that their campaign slogan would undoubtedly produce a "blip-blip" on TV, Author Norman Mailer and Writer Jimmy Breslin formally announced their respective candidacies for New York City mayor and city council president. What's more, they were serious about it. "We are sentimental about the past," said Mailer. "We want New York to thrive again, to be a city famous for the charm, ferocity, elegance, strength, calm and racy character of its separate neighborhoods." The Mailer-Breslin plan is to detach the city from New York State and make it a city-state of its own, organized...
...being co-opted by the mass media." What if the system makes him rich? His usual grin, a shrug of the shoulders, pause: "Eh . . . there it is." He is confident that wealth will not blunt his outrage. "I'm not convinced yet that I'm even a writer," he says. "But if I am, hopefully, I can be more effective doing that than as one more kid picketing. And remember, the two aren't mutually exclusive...
...minister was a pin-ball addict who had the tilt sign turned off whenever he played--were never reported. Back in Washington for a few months, he finally left for the Trib after "covering about my fourth sewer hearing." In '62, he joined the New York paper as a writer-illustrator, pleased to discover it had retained its old-fashioned, friendly newsroom with its twenties atmosphere...