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...Berkowitz had no continuing attachment to a mother, he also seemed to have little affinity for women of his own age. According to Columnist Jimmy Breslin, a detective asked Berkowitz: "Do you go with girls...
...lanes, attacked couples coming from strobe-lighted discotheques, even opened fire at a pair of girls on a house porch and shot another as he passed her on a street. Twice he taunted police with notes (one left at the scene of a double murder, one sent to Columnist Jimmy Breslin). He has phoned precinct headquarters to say which neighborhood he planned to hit next. But he was neither caught nor cowed, and an aroused modern police force looked no more effective in preventing this type of crude terror than Scotland Yard in dealing with Jack the Ripper...
...that there had never been a budget. One of Sulzberger's first, and gutsiest, moves was to shut down the hemorrhaging West Coast edition. More important, he started diversifying the Times by buying Cowles Communications, with its lucrative magazines (Family Circle, Golf Digest) and small newspapers. Diversification, according to Columnist James Reston, has been Sulzberger's shrewdest move to date. "With more of the company's earnings coming from outside the paper," says Reston, "Punch could confront the unions with the fact that we could take a strike if necessary...
Breathless Claim. This loan was the focus of the most sensational of the charges. New York Times Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, raised the question of whether the $3.4 million loan that was granted on Jan. 7, after Lance had accepted the sensitive OMB job, was a "sweetheart loan." Safire claimed rather breathlessly that the deal was an opportunity for the bank's chairman, A. Robert Abboud, who is extremely influential in Chicago Democratic politics, "to gain life-and-death financial control over the man closest to the President...
...most wistful summaries, as always, come from noncombatants. Columnist Marquis Childs remembers telling himself after Pearl Harbor. "Nothing will ever be the same again." And, of course, it was not. An army wife was perfectly correct when she called World War II "a very broadening experience." Both for better and for worse, as Melville Grosvenor concludes, "It made a country...