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...that he wears his religion on his sleeve. That makes a lot of people uneasy." Said Michael Novak, a Catholic theologian and insightful analyst of U.S. politics: "It makes him come across as too pious, the good kid on the playground. There's no sex appeal in that." Wrote Columnist Jim Miller in the Brooklyn church weekly the Tablet: "It is a whole cultural style and delivery that is foreign to people who are not rural, Southern fundamentalists. Ford is a known factor who does not threaten [Catholics] culturally...
Died. Paul Gallico, 78, sportswriter turned sentimental tale spinner; of a heart attack; in Monaco. Sports editor and columnist at the New York Daily News from 1924 to 1936, Gallico pioneered what is now known as the Plimpton Ploy: swimming against Johnny Weissmuller, boxing a round with Jack Dempsey ("I knew all there was to know about being hit"). Gallico quit the News in 1936 and wrote Farewell to Sport, the first of 41 books, many of them bestsellers. Among his most popular novels: The Snow Goose (1941), Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1958), The Poseidon Adventure...
...before you could reach the floor for a second time. Once given the baton you'd try to run past the crowds, but it took five minutes to get to the floor. There was a great temptation not to return the pass. But two things, the rumor that Washington columnist Barbara Howar had been evicted from the convention for staying out an hour-and-a-half on her floor pass, and the DNC staffers' sheer meanness when they greeted you if you returned even a few minutes late, were strong deterrents. Those with orange passes had a much sweeter deal...
...Bill Veeck's telling summary: "It destroys the illusion ... that this is a game for the fans." The fans knew it, too, even in Boston and New York. Of the first 20 calls to a Boston sports talk show, not one defended the Sox deal. New York Times Columnist Dave Anderson wrote: "A sense of embarrassment dominates what the Yankees...
...Lucius W. Nieman Fellows for 1976-77 will be: Robert J. Azzi, photojournalist with Magnum, Incorporated; Tony Castro Jr., a reporter for The Houston Post; Rodney W. Decker, a columnist and editorial writer for The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah; Melvin M.S. Goo, editorial writer for the Honolulu Advertiser; Kathryn Johnson, news reporter for the Associated Press in Atlanta...