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...never leaves his desk, built a spectacular career on telephone impersonation. Known to admiring colleagues as "the Heifetz of the telephone," Romanoff achieved his greatest performance in covering the 1966 mass murder of eight Chicago student nurses, when he 1) extracted the gory details of the crime from a policeman by pretending to be the Cook County coroner, 2) landed an exclusive story on Suspect Richard Speck by convincing Speck's mother that he was her son's attorney...
Second Wallet. It was a debatable judgment. Coram's deception was certainly no more flagrant than that of hundreds of other reporters who misrepresent themselves to get their stories. "Any good police reporter," says a Chicago city editor, "will get a story out of a policeman by posing as one of his ultimate superiors-a guy who is too highly placed for the patrolman to know whether he is talking to the deputy superintendent or not. It is not something the city desk can condone, exactly. But you don't ask how they got the story, either...
...think the object of criticism ought to be the policeman. The police are caught in the middle, between those who rise up, often without any purpose in mind other than the moment's rage, and on the other side the white intellectuals who often put the blame on the police rather than on more fundamental things that are responsible for the police action--action which is often, in the existential moment, absolutely necessary. I would aim criticism at people of far greater influence, people with a lot more power and social respect and status, a lot more money and--ironically...
Vellcucci left to find a policeman, but when he returned with the officer, the culprits were fleeing. "We lost them somewhere in the area," he ruefully admitted...
Identity Search. Within three weeks, some 55 U.S. channels will forgo their prime-time schedule for a Westinghouse Broadcasting Corp. program called One Nation, Indivisible, a 3-to 31-hour inquiry into the race problem. Sixteen citizens, including a Bible-quoting white minister, a policeman and a housewife P.T.A. president, quietly discuss their feelings-and biases. In contrast to the fiery confrontations between white bigots and black militants that are all the rage on many public affairs shows, the Westinghouse production is an unsensational, subtle and at the same time shattering view of the unconscious prejudice prevalent...