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...York Times Columnist William Safire summed up the outcome in Connecticut and New York this way: "The East wind that chilled the Carter candidacy this week was made up of four...
DIED. Gerald White Johnson, 89, reporter, columnist and author of more than 30 books on Americans and U.S. history; in Baltimore. Johnson was on the Greensboro, N.C., Daily News when Critic H.L. Mencken spotted him as "the best editorial writer in the South." After joining the Baltimore Sun in 1926, Johnson spent 17 years as a liberal, optimistic foil to Mencken's contemptuous conservatism. It was often said that Johnson wrote some of his best editorials in less than ten minutes; he completed books with no less facility. Among them were This American People (1951) and the series America...
...blared the New York Post. IT'S ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTING. "The Voters of Illinois," concluded Chicago Tribune Political Editor F. Richard Ciccone, "left no avenue of hope open for the man [Kennedy] who was almost everybody's hope only six months ago." Wrote Washington Post Columnist Haynes Johnson: "To suggest that Carter still may stagger while Kennedy somehow miraculously rises defies all reality...
...tavern quarrel. As the book tells it, Brennan favored a retrial but decided to join in the majority opinion. Reason: Brennan was concerned that Harry Blackmun, who wrote the opinion, would be "personally offended" if he dissented and thus might not support him in other cases. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis decided to probe this account of cynical legal horse-trading, which the book suggested was based on the recollection of an unnamed former Brennan clerk. Lewis found the ex-clerk, Paul R. Hoeber, now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Hoeber denied that...
...reportorial criticism of Carter is less concerned about his policies. Columnist Broder recalls that the press got "unshirted hell-and deservedly so" after the 1972 campaign for letting Nixon get away without having to defend his policies in the rough-and-tumble of debate. Broder is not happy with the defense that "our work is to cover a campaign, not to stage it." As Andrew Glass, Washington bureau chief for Cox newspapers, puts it: "We must not let Carter 'Nixonize' us." The smoke-him-out brigade is gaining some influential press volunteers...