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Elsewhere in the paper there were emotional farewells from columnists, some of whom, like the sole good athlete on a last-place team, had been allowed an astonishing amount of latitude over the years. At a time when a Memphis radio station was infuriating a bloated local boy, Elvis Presley, with a weight-mocking song called Just One More Jelly Doughnut, whose background refrain went, "He's gonna pop!" a Press-Scimitar columnist was actually begging in the paper for Elvis to give him a Cadillac. The singer was not moved...
...years he has left the most shadowy of paths. It was rumored, but never proved, that he tried to bribe high officials in the Nixon and Carter Administrations. According to Justice Department officials, he consorted with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. In August, Columnist Jack Anderson placed him in the Nicaraguan bush. A month later, NBC reported that he was masterminding a major drug-smuggling operation out of the Bahamas. But Financier Robert Vesco, who fled the U.S. in late 1972 after being indicted on charges of swindling mutual-fund investors out of $224 million, has not surfaced publicly since...
Another sore spot is Garland's specially commissioned logo, which one respected New Haven Register columnist described as "a hideous design which emphasizes the crimson H over the blue Y." Or, as Harvard Varsity Club President Bob Picket matter-of-factly notes: "Harvard is more prominent than Yale in the Logo, which helps." Garland explains that H is simply a larger letter, adding. "We just arrived at the most equal and optically pleasing design...We don't want to be unjudicious hosts...
...American war "produced, filmed and reported by the Pentagon," as Columnist Haynes Johnson called it, was an abuse of power that deserves to be examined for what it says about both the military and the press...
...mind on the blackout. "Rather than mount ing a constitutional soapbox," said the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "the press might better spend its time contemplating why it was not informed and in vited." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat volunteered a blunt explanation: "... the television networks' antidefense bias." Declared conservative Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan: "If senior U.S. commanders running this operation harbor a deep distrust of the American press, theirs is not an unmerited contempt...