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Novelist-Reporter Paul Ferris, who started on a Northcliffe paper in Wales, respects his subject-as any newspaperman should. Northcliffe had "the arrogance of the natural journalist, that what interested him would interest his readers." That he made millions proving it was incidental. After the Wright Brothers' first European flight, he raged at his editors for the four-line paragraph they had given it. "Didn't they realize England was no longer an island...
Coles found things that will startle the liberal scholar and the doctrinaire radical alike. He found black fathers of strength in a supposedly matriarchical ghetto and he found a Washington cabdriver from West Virginia who wanted his son to become a newspaperman and hated arrogant bureaucrats who didn't tip him. He found little children with the same dreams as their peers in Winnetka and Newton, and he sorrowed because he knew their dreams would be destroyed. But above all he found complexity. He found that people who may never have heard of the New York Times...
...question still to be fully answered is exactly how Irving got the Phelan manuscript. Noah Dietrich began working on a book about Hughes in Los Angeles during 1969. Jim Phelan, his collaborator, is a widely experienced newspaperman and investigative reporter who has written five magazine articles on Hughes. Says Dietrich: "Phelan would come up to my house in Benedict Canyon and I would dictate to his tape recorder. One hundred hours of tapes. Then he digested this and wrote down a lot of questions, and I dictated a whole batch of memos to my secretary...
...Perfall, associate editor of the Long Island tabloid Newsday (circ. 427,000), a leader in the trend. Newsday has not one investigative reporter but a permanent team of four, sometimes raised to eleven for special projects. It is headed by Robert Greene, a 300-lb., 42-year-old veteran newspaperman who worked with Bobby Kennedy as a staff investigator for the Senate Rackets Committee...
Three days later, the American was buried by a bicycle dealer. Last year, after the dealer died, his widow talked about the incident to a local newspaperman. Before long, many survivors of the bomb came forward with similar stories. Their testimony firmly establishes that among the 200,000 victims of the holocaust, which struck 26 years ago this week, as many as 23 may have been Americans...