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...most depressing spectacles on television is Erma Bombeck's regular weekday stint on ABC's Good Morning America. From her humble beginnings as a syndicated newspaper humor columnist, Bombeck has evolved into a TV personality of the most plastic sort. She delivers her one-liners in a strident vibrato; she luxuriates in canned laughter as though it were the praise of a Nobel Prize jury. Bombeck used to satirize the vulgarity of American suburbia; now she epitomizes...
...before the strike. WHITHER DEÉTENTE? asks the lead editorial, which never bothers to answer. The editorial page includes the inevitable ode to nature's awesome wonders, titled AUTUMN'S FALL ("Now does the deep-throated maple hush its cheery warble ..."). On the Op-Ed page, Columnist James Rest writes from Balkh, Asia Minor (" 'How are you, Scotty?' asked the Khan, gnawing on a Kurd...
Rusty Unger, a former book editor and Village Voice columnist, denied that the paper's 100,000-copy press run was printed by Garber Publishing Co. in Toledo, denied that Garber had agreed to finance the venture in return for the first $20,000 in revenues plus 30% of the rest, and denied that any profits from the venture would go to the Neediest Cases Fund that the New York Times sponsors each year...
Cigars passed. Help for those friendly tobacco growers? Few take them. Nobody lights one up. Everybody polite, muted by setting. Columnist Rowland Evans looking serious. Came to town under F.D.R. New Republic's John Osborne looming like Buddha at far end of five bouquets. Carter Aide Jerry Rafshoon looking pale. Been watching TV too much. Meet the Press's originator Lawrence Spivak smiling. Lone Woman Mary McGrory wants to know if she and the rest have been too tough on President. President believes so now and then, but is not going to press point in new aura. Jimmy...
Early in September, Syndicated Columnist Jack Anderson published a story hinting that the Justice Department's decision to stop trying to extradite Vesco was proof that his influence-buying scheme had succeeded. Anderson also obtained sworn statements from Herring's secretary, Geralynne Hobbs, that she had typed and mailed to Jordan and Kirbo several letters about Vesco's proposals...