Word: kierstead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kierstead '50, the executive city editor, was disappointed when reporters came back without "quotes, color, detail, and incident." Without those items, the 5 basic points of the story--Who, What, Where, When, and How--were useless. Bill McCarthy, who managed the news operation, was fond of pointing out to his more heady reporters that "this is a newspaper story you're writing, not a thesis." A long six-part series I wrote once on defects in Boston's tax collection apparatus had a lead on it that probably would have turned James Q. Wilson's head. McCarthy said it turned...