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...husband," Erma Bombeck cheerily told a visitor last week, "works as a supervisor of social studies for secondary schools, and if you have a space between your teeth that's hard to say." Syndicated Columnist Erma has a big space between her own front teeth. She also has, by her description, "fat calves, unmanicured hands, makeupless eyes" and is "overweight, overworked, over-childrened and underpatienced." But one thing is clearly going for her: irresistible humor about the trials of being a housewife...
Most Fascinating. Other outstanding black newsmen: William Raspberry, a columnist for the Washington Post, who has won for the past three years the top award for interpretive reporting from the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild; Thomas A. Johnson, a reporter for the New York Times, who wrote a penetrating series in 1968 on the Negro in Viet Nam, and Lu Palmer, a reporter-columnist for the Chicago Daily News, who wrote memorable pieces on the courtroom shackling of Bobby Scale and the killing of Black Panther Fred Hampton...
ALTHOUGH the number of black journalists in the U.S. has increased over the past decade, less than 5% of all reporters and photographers are black. There is only one black syndicated columnist. There are no black managing editors on white publications. Many newspapers, particularly in the South, employ no blacks at all, except as clerks or janitors. The Washington Post, with 19 blacks out of an editorial staff of 222, is the most "integrated" large daily newspaper. The New York Times (13 blacks out of 374 editorial employees), the San Francisco Chronicle (four out of 196), the St. Louis Post...
Died. William Hopper, 54, actor son of the late Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, who after many years of playing bit parts in films like Footloose Heiress and Torchy Blane, the Adventurous Blonde, and eight years as a car salesman, became a star of sorts as Paul Drake, Perry Mason's detective friend in the famed TV series; of a stroke; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...dined alone with the Trumans their last night in the White House; can get away without tipping hat-check girls at New York's Inmost restaurants; introduced Two-Ton Tony Galento to Noel Coward and Marc Chagall to Richard Nixon. Leonard Lyons also is the last syndicated celebrity columnist who does all his own legwork...