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...Broadway Columnist Mark Hellinger got him a reporter's job at Hearst's Mirror and taught him to write short sentences that tugged at the heartstrings. Bishop tugged away off and on for twelve years at the Mirror, drifted through jobs as a ghost writer for Hellinger, became an editor at Collier's and ended up as a freelancer, mired in drink, depression and debt...
Just before her death, Runkle described their relationship in as a letter she sent to Newsweek Columnist Pete Axthelm: "Johnny and I do love each other in our own, twisted ways." But Campo, married and the father of two sons, denies any intimacy. "We were close, sure," he told a reporter. "But I never touched her. Our relationship was one of employer and employee. I made her what she was. She would have been nothing without...
...lost $31.2 million since 1979-$10.3 million in the first half of this year-will publish its last edition on Aug. 16 unless the paper's eight unions agree to $5 million a year in cutbacks. The announcement brought a hush to the usually bustling newsroom. Said Bulletin Columnist Rose DeWolf: "You could hear a mosquito buzz...
...paper they had struggled so valiantly to save. Those arriving at work early last Thursday were given the grim news by their supervisors; others heard it on their car radios or read it in a black-bordered announcement on the Star's front page. Said Sports Columnist Morris Siegel, 61, whose 19th anniversary with the paper coincides with its closing: "For once we beat the Post on the big story-damn it to hell." Editor Murray Gart (who had observed earlier: "I'm as intensely proud of the staff of the Star as any editor can be") presided...
Morale was low in recent months, partly from the strain of being on an apparently sinking ship. At the end, some Star hands expressed anger. Pulitzer Prizewinning Syndicated Columnist Mary McGrory, a Star veteran of 34 years, wrote in her column: "We're sad, but we're mad too. Now the life support system has been pulled." Her main gripe was that Time Inc. had made a commitment to spend $60 million over five years but decided to fold the paper after only 3½ Time Inc. executives point out that the $60 million unfortunately ran out well...