Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question still to be fully answered is exactly how Irving got the Phelan manuscript. Noah Dietrich began working on a book about Hughes in Los Angeles during 1969. Jim Phelan, his collaborator, is a widely experienced newspaperman and investigative reporter who has written five magazine articles on Hughes. Says Dietrich: "Phelan would come up to my house in Benedict Canyon and I would dictate to his tape recorder. One hundred hours of tapes. Then he digested this and wrote down a lot of questions, and I dictated a whole batch of memos to my secretary...
...Perfall, associate editor of the Long Island tabloid Newsday (circ. 427,000), a leader in the trend. Newsday has not one investigative reporter but a permanent team of four, sometimes raised to eleven for special projects. It is headed by Robert Greene, a 300-lb., 42-year-old veteran newspaperman who worked with Bobby Kennedy as a staff investigator for the Senate Rackets Committee...
Three days later, the American was buried by a bicycle dealer. Last year, after the dealer died, his widow talked about the incident to a local newspaperman. Before long, many survivors of the bomb came forward with similar stories. Their testimony firmly establishes that among the 200,000 victims of the holocaust, which struck 26 years ago this week, as many as 23 may have been Americans...
Royko is a newspaperman, a columnist and commentator for the Chicago Daily News. Though his book is essentially a hatchet job, released more or less to coincide with the campaign for last week's mayoralty election in Chicago, Royko sees Mayor Richard Daley as an inevitable product of the Chicago environment. The mayor was born into a workingman's family in Bridgeport, an Irish neighborhood in that South Side region known, without comment, as Back of the Yards. He was born to membership in the Hamburgs, an athletic club whose members took their exercise by beating the bejesus...
Died. Debs Myers, 59, onetime newspaperman and public relations expert who served such political figures as Robert F. Wagner, Robert F. Kennedy and Adlai E. Stevenson; of hepatitis; in New Haven, Conn. A onetime managing editor of Newsweek, Myers had a genius for helping politicians help themselves, or, as he put it, "the ability to turn lemons into lemonade." He insisted that "the best public relations in government is good government...