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...result can be questionable scoops. In April, for instance, the Chicago Daily News and the New York Post gave prominent play to a statement that Nixon two years ago met Robert Vesco, the businessman and G.O.P. campaign contributor who was later to become a fugitive from federal prosecution. The story called the development a "new bombshell." In fact, the source was the fallen financier, Bernard Cornfeld, a Vesco enemy fresh out of jail himself. His account lacked proof that the meeting had taken place; even Cornfeld did not claim firsthand knowledge of it. The New York Times last January front...
...Mets traded him because he was supposed to be a troublemaker. He and his roommate, Cleon Jones, were supposed to be fomenting revolution. This is the sort of analysis you expect from Eric Sevareid. Sure enough, Mrs. Joan Payson, who owns the Mets, turned out to be a big contributor to the Committee to Re-elect. Tom Seaver and Ed Kranepool and so on used to appear on Sesame Street about once a week, but still...what about the Cambodian kids...
...chief contributor to these conclusions was Thomas Matthews, an 18-year-old high school student. He was kidnaped by Patty and her S.L.A. companions, Emily and William Harris, during their frantic escape after shooting up a Los Angeles sporting-goods store the day before the fiery siege in which six of the S.L.A. gang members died. For twelve hours, the trio held Matthews captive while driving aimlessly around the Los Angeles area in his van. They even stopped for a while in a drive-in movie. Immediately after his release, Matthews, fearing reprisal by the S.L.A., did not tell...
...startling was the apostasy of the Omaha World-Herald, a highly conservative paper whose support for Nixon was evident for years in its news columns as well as on its editorial page. Those views reflected the thinking not only of its owner Peter Kiewit, a construction multimillionaire and Nixon contributor, but also of the people of the state that it blankets. Nixon got his best voter percentages in Nebraska in 1960 and 1968, and only a few other states did better for him in 1972. Yet the World-Herald concluded last week that Nixon should resign. A remarkable number...
...these tales share a kindred urbanity, as might be expected from a longtime contributor of fiction and criticism to The New Yorker. (Gill's present post there is Broadway theater critic.) Many of the characters-clubmen, wealthy matrons, genteel spinsters -could well be the literary grandchildren of Edith Wharton's characters. Gill's narrative voice evokes the kind of man who might be found in one of his own fictional clubs or parlors-a wryly observant uncle or older brother who has moved in wide enough circles to be able to recount a homosexual killing...