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...singled out, Times Columnist C.L. Sulzberger, denies that he actively aided the CIA, but Columnist Joseph Alsop admitted to Bernstein that he occasionally spooked for the agency before his retirement in 1974: "I'm proud they asked me and proud to have done it. The notion that a newspaperman doesn't have a duty to his country is perfect balls." Not many colleagues would agree, but a few insisted last week that there is nothing wrong in a journalist's talking to an intelligence source. "There isn't a foreign correspondent worth his salt who hasn...
...limousine service, hotels, books, a modeling agency), Playboy Enterprises earned only $2 million on sales of $198 million in fiscal 1976, far below its 1973 earnings peak of $11.2 million. A year ago, Hefner hired Daniels, 48, a vice president of the Knight-Ridder chain. Daniels is a onetime newspaperman (city editor, the Miami Herald) and grandson of the late North Carolina publisher Josephus Daniels, who was Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson. He was reluctant to take on Hefner's problems but was wooed by the Chief Rabbit's salary offer of $250,000 annually, plus...
Died. Nunnally Johnson, 79, the witty Georgian who was one of Hollywood's most versatile and highly paid screenwriters and producers; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. After stints as a newspaperman and a humorist for the Saturday Evening Post, Johnson wrote nearly 100 screenplays in 35 years, including such classics as The Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Three Faces of Eve. A wisecracker, he quipped after two divorces: "I always insist on custody of the mother...
...begins what some irate residents of Martha's Vineyard (winter population: 8,000), an island off Massachusetts, say could well be their new national anthem. Anthem? A band of rebellious islanders, among them Selectman John Alley, a West Tisbury storekeeper, and Newspaperman George Adams, are preparing for independence: a flag has been designed, proposals for gambling casinos are circulating, and applications have been submitted for ambassadorial posts...
...years in Congress representing western Michigan's Fifth District, which includes Grand Rapids, Ford kept in close touch through frequent trips home. "Sometimes he would give a breakfast speech and then fly to Washington for a crucial vote and return for an evening meeting," recalls Maury DeJonge, a newspaperman who has covered Ford for many years. Many summers Ford spent two weeks crisscrossing his district in a trailer to talk with home folks. He was regarded as an effective Congressman, though he seldom bagged rich federal projects for his district. His straight-shooting constituents would have thought...