Word: maxa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half a mile west of the White House that sports a Gay Nineties decor and a clientele that can range, on a given evening, from Washington office workers to White House staffers, along with political powers like House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill. As Columnist Rudy Maxa told it in a short but vivid item in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Jordan turned up one Friday evening with some friends, introduced himself to a young woman as Harvey Phillips and tried to strike up a conversation. When the woman, identified only as "an attractive advertising copywriter," ignored him, Maxa wrote...
What was more surprising than the thinly substantiated Post tidbit (Maxa said that the girl was a personal friend of his) was the stunning White House reaction. After seeing Maxa's item, Press Secretary Jody Powell counterattacked with an 8,000-word, 33-page denial that must be one of the more bizarre official documents ever to emerge from the White House. Among the supporting evidence was the transcript of a lengthy deposition taken by a White House lawyer from the saloon's barkeep, Daniel V. Marshall III. Marshall's recollection was that Jordan had been besieged: "Girls [were] coming...
...focusing less on the play by play and more on the thoughts, problems and personal lives of athletes, and women can be at a disadvantage in getting close to their sources. "There is too much misunderstanding, too much innuendo if you try," says the Washington Star's Kathleen Maxa, 27. Assigned to cover a major tennis tournament last summer, Maxa talked a famous European player into an exclusive interview and accompanied him to his hotel, where it turned out that he was less interested in talk than action...