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What Gray offers is a prized Washington commodity called access. His specialty is the returned phone call. "A Bob Gray can get your case heard," says Jack Albertine, president of the American Business Conference. Declares the New Republic columnist TRB: "Gray's firm has broken new ground in the brazenness with which it presents itself as selling not legal services or even public relations, but connections pure and simple...
While the paper reported that it did not know what, if anything, Winans got in return for the leaks, which violated a detailed Journal ethics policy,- it noted that the columnist frequently complained about the size of his salary. He continued to do so after receiving a $35-a-week raise last November that boosted his weekly income to $610. Among other things, Winans said he was distressed by the large medical bill owed by Carpenter, whose health had been weakened by a case of leukemia that has been in remission for years...
...James M. Shannon (D-Lawrence) answering a question from The Boston Globe columnist Robert L. Turner that seemed to he a direct challenge to Shannon's reputation as an "insider" who doesn't arouse the publicity someone like Markey does, said he would bring "tough policy making to the Senate...
Lucky for Mickey that he owns a meat truck. Unfortunately for Mickey, Richard Shellburn, Philadelphia's most beloved columnist, peers through his alcoholic fog long enough to become aware of the un sung death of Leon Hubbard, interviews the grieving mother and falls in love with her. As Mickey's luck careers downhill, he reflects on the source of his troubles: "Alive, Leon was a pain in the ass; dead, he was killing...
Author Dexter, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, piles on more complications and coincidences than his novel ought to carry. What saves God's Pocket from flighty sensationalism is its impressive ballast of local color. The fictional neighborhood named in the title is a white, working-class enclave in South Philadelphia that seems all too real: narrow houses, streets, lives; a place where the Hollywood Bar, the social hub of the area, does "half its business before noon." Some of the novel's best times are spent at the Hollywood. Mickey hears a drunken woman praise...