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...revving up began on ABC's highly successful This Week with David Brinkley, where Sam Donaldson is teamed with Columnist George F. Will, whom Brinkley describes as "an Encyclopaedia Britannica on wheels." Side by side, they take turns at boring in on a guest. Only a politician with aplomb and a fast tongue can escape being overwhelmed by this pair, even though, as the old saying goes, a fool can ask ten questions while a wise man answers one. Sometimes an affable Brinkley eases up their questioning: "We've become aware of very bad public reaction...
...Columnist Jimmy Breslin of the New York Daily News and the stereotypical New York City policeman have much in common: both are Irish Catholic, beefy, outspoken and known to take a drop. Usually relations between the commentator and the constabulary have been fraternal. Last week, however, Breslin had the boys in blue seeing red. In denouncing the dismissal of a policewoman who posed nude for a skin magazine before becoming an officer, Breslin accused the police department of a double standard. "Wallowing in filthy sex" is common among officers, he charged...
...Newsweek was raked by Columnist Anthony Lewis of the New York Times and by Ombudsman Robert McCloskey at Newsweek's sister publication, the Washington Post. Lewis said Newsweek had been either "gullible" or "shameless." He wrote: "The cover story raised the possibility of fraud. But it went on for pages about the historical significance of it all. And it said: 'Genuine or not, it almost doesn't matter in the end.' It matters a lot." McCloskey argued: "The impression created [by Newsweek] with the aid of provocative newspaper and television advertising was that the entire story...
DIED. Jory Graham, 55, newspaper columnist, author and lecturer whose weekly A Time to Live, syndicated in 50 newspapers, chronicled her spirited eight-year battle with cancer for an audience often inspired by her courage and candor; of cancer; in Chicago. Graham, who began the column to help cancer patients like herself face up to the reality of the disease, wrote last month: "Long ago, I promised I would let you know when I came to the time of my dying. That time has come...
...losses from $2.4 million to $300,000. Nonetheless, last week Kinsley gave up one of the most visible jobs in magazine journalism for one of the more anonymous: starting in September, he will replace the revered Richard Strout, who retired at 85 after four decades as the pseudonymous TRB columnist for the weekly New Republic (circ. 96,000). Said Kinsley: "Some people think I am crazy, but writing a column is a journalist's dream, and this one seems to come open once every 40 years...