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...quickly scrapped in favor of a national one. Explains O'Sullivan: "One of the attractions of living here is gloating about how all your friends up North are freezing." To help ease the transition, the owners elevated Columnist Lynn Ashby, who is probably Houston's best-known newspaperman, to the new post of editor, overseeing the opinion pages. Says Ashby: "The city has badly needed a public discussion of issues. I do not ask people to agree with us, but I want us to be the first thing they pick up in the morning." His program: expanded political...
...before losing in the 1982 election, and he says Kennedy persuaded him to follow the path he did. Droney worked as treasurer for the 1946 congressional campaign, but had little interest in politics. Kennedy told him, however, "You wanted to be a lawyer, and I wanted to be a newspaperman, but we have to put that aside now. We have to put away some of our own wishes and solve some of the nation's problems." Droney adds, "He changed my whole attitude in 10 minutes...
...radio rig, stereo and FM tuner. More recently he installed cordless telephones in his New York City apartment and in his country house in the Catskills. "I'm almost as interested in how people communicate as in what is communicated," says DeMott. "My father was a newspaperman, and I remember vividly being in his office as a child and watching the wirephotos coming in seemingly out of nowhere...
...craziness has a fine ring to it while it lasts. One of the most appealing adventure stories of recent years is what might be called the Every Now and Then Transatlantic Singlehanded Ridiculously Small Boat Derby. The first entrant was the late Robert Manry, a Cleveland newspaperman who in 1965 sailed across the Atlantic in his 13½-ft. Tinkerbelle, a craft so tiny that it looked like a bathtub toy. Years passed-it takes a certain sort of person to enter the Ridiculous-and last year Briton Tom McClean sailed from Newfoundland to England in an absurd craft called...
...because of her splurges. Byrne, who was beaten after one term in office by Harold Washington in last February's Democratic primary, recently filed a campaign financial report with the state as required by law. It revealed that the then mayor paid her husband Jay McMullen, an ex-newspaperman, the extravagant sum of $166,000 for his work in the past year as a consultant to her campaign, while she paid out another $14,175 to her 25-year-old daughter Kathy for secretarial work. There is nothing illegal about such payments, and her campaign was not hurting...