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...worst snowstorm since . . . and so on. Only last week, Washington Post Columnist George Will described Ronald Reagan as "arguably the most gifted campaigner since Theodore Roosevelt" - which, arguably, is the most outlandish judgment since . . . stretcher, anyone...
...describe her in their report only as a "close friend" of Kennedy's, not even disclosing her sex. Some committee staffers considered this a whitewash, however, and leaked the story to several newspapers. But it did not become a national scandal until last week, when New York Times Columnist William Safire accused the committee of a "cover-up." Committee Chairman Frank Church called the charge "preposterous." Said he: "We had no evidence to suggest that she was a conduit of any kind. We had no evidence that she was used to get a hold on the President...
...staff. Hoover's men ran name checks on 15 of them, producing derogatory information on two (a traffic violation on one and a love affair on another). Johnson asked for similar checks on at least seven journalists who had displeased him. They included NBC's David Brinkley, Columnist JOseph Kraft, Associated Press's Peter Arnett, the Chicago Daily News' Peter Lisagor and LIFE'S Richard Stolley (now managing editor of PEOPLE). L.B.J. also sought from the FBI, and duly received, information on critics of the Warren Commission's report on the assassination of Jack...
When he was 16, he ran away from his Queens home to join the Marines. "I was afraid the war would be over before I got in," said Columnist Art Buehwald, "so I gave some drunk a half-pint of whisky and got him to sign my papers as my father." Last week Buchwald was given the "Runaway of the Year" award-predated to 1942-by the Special Approaches in Juvenile Assistance Board. The funnyman allowed as how he had only one regret: "The old drunk who patriotically gave me to his country" was not on hand for the occasion...
Back Issues. Under O'Neill, the News has given more space to movie and theater criticism and added a humor columnist, Gerald Nachman, whose satire is so subtle that many longtime News readers take his spoofs seriously. When Nachman wrote that because of the nostalgia craze a fictional "Ye Olde Nostalgia Shoppe" had been so successful that it was reduced to selling back issues of PEOPLE magazine, dozens of fans wrote in asking for the address. Another O'Neill-era recruit is the paper's Washington bureau chief James Weighert, whom Political Chronicler Theodore H. White calls...