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Donovan was an eclectic recruiter; among the people he brought into the OSS were Conservative Columnist Stewart Alsop, Marxist Political Philosopher Herbert Marcuse, and Chef Julia Child, who tended intelligence files at the OSS office in Chongqing (Chungking). So many OSS people were listed in the Social Register that critics complained that the initials stood for "Oh So Social...
Predictably enough, Kennedy's presidential bid has also revived press stories about Chappaquiddick. his 1951 expulsion from Harvard for cheating and anything else that might illumine his character. Last week New York Times Columnist William Safire dredged up a 1958 reckless driving conviction: as a law student at the University of Virginia, Kennedy tried to elude a pursuing police officer, Safire reported, then was found hiding in the front seat of his car. Safire concluded: "When in big trouble, Ted Kennedy's repeated history has been to run, to hide, to get caught and to get away with...
...York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, it was dramatic deja vu. There stood Wicker in a prison courtyard full of makeshift tents and rebellious prisoners, just as he had eight years earlier when he acted as a negotiator during New York's infamous Attica prison riot. That time, the talks collapsed and 39 people died, most of them inmates but some of them the guards they had taken as hostages. This time, it was all playacting: ABC is filming a two-hour television drama, Attica, based on Wicker's book about the 1971 uprising. Barred from using Attica itself...
Sullivan--a former sports columnist for the old Boston Herald-Traveler, offers his most insightful writing in an appraisal of Fenway's fans: How do you describe Red Sox fans? Devoted. Patient. Long-suffering. And perhaps a little masochistic, always coming back for more frustration after having their hearts broken. They have even been rooting for the Red Sox at some road games and you wonder which is the visiting team...Fenway's fans--they're a rare species, some of the world's best...and a few of the worst...
Irish terrorists. "The Irish, they're pigs," snapped Margaret, and then blurted, "Oh, you're Irish." That version of their talk, reported by Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet, created an international furor. Byrne diplomatically recalled the conversation as having had something to do with Irish jigs. London sources insisted that Margaret, if she used pigs at all, was referring only to terrorists...