Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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English class, "The Art of Eating Spaghetti." He barely remembers it and no copy has survived. Young Baker heard family stories of his mother's cousin, Edwin James, who was managing editor of the New York Times from 1932 to 1951, and understood the moral: words were a way out. He won a competitive scholarship to Johns Hopkins in 1942 and ambled through his first year with nonchalance...
...doing a weekly article for the Sun called "Window on Fleet Street," which attracted the attention of another old London hand, James Reston, then Washington bureau chief of the New York Times. "It conveyed a sense of London, what the melody really was," says Reston today. So he made the young man an offer, and in 1954 Russell and Mimi returned to Washington...
...paper back. Some time after that the interview ended with Johnson still effusing. Another reporter who followed Baker into Johnson's office got a look at the scrap of paper; on it was written, "Who is this I am talking to?" and below that, "Russell Baker of the New York Times...
...right." But by the end of 1974 the stake had been hammered through Richard Nixon's heart, and Jerry Ford seemed to be doing an adequate job of satirizing himself. Baker felt that the column was too reportorial, and he was tired of politicians. He moved to New York City...
...other member is Gerald Nachman, 41, a former feature writer for the New York News, who began a humor column for the paper in 1973. Since then he has proposed establishment of a home for wed mothers and called for an Anti-Turkey Roll League to slow the advance of that luncheon meat. Like Baker, Nachman has begun to avoid politics. "It doesn't touch people's lives like dealing with the phone company does," he explains. "In the real world, people go for weeks without thinking of Jimmy Carter. As a humor columnist, I wish there were...