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Murray Kempton

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    February 18, 2011

    Jack Newfield: There Is No "New Journalism"

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20 Of honest men & good writers By Jack Newfield After participating in several panel discussions, attending (More)'s counter-convention, reading books and articles by Tom Wolfe and Mike Arlen, and being i ... More >>

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    June 17, 2010

    Pete Hamill on the Death of Newsweek The Saturday Evening Post

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 16, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 14 More Irrelevant Than Irreverent by Pete Hamill The tv cameras had departed, the reporters were gone, and in the fourth-floor offices of the Saturday Evening Post at 541 Lexington Avenue, there wasn't ... More >>

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    June 14, 2010

    Nat Hentoff Ends His Column (In 1968, That Is)

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 26, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 11 A Departure by Nat Hentoff This will be my last weekly column in The Voice... As for why I'm discontinuing the weekly review of the press -- which was an advocacy column, often pamphleteering, I sup ... More >>

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    May 5, 2010

    Pete Hamill's Eyewitness Account of Robert Kennedy's Assassination

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 13, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 35 Two Minutes to Midnight: The Very Last Hurrah by Pete Hamill LOS ANGELES -- It was, of course, two minutes to midnight an the Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel was rowdy with triumph. Red and blue ba ... More >>

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    April 26, 2010

    Nat Hentoff on McCarthyism. No, the OTHER McCarthyism.

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 25, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 28 Help! by Nat Hentoff Eugene McCarthy on the indictment of Spock, Coffin, Goodman, Raskin, Ferber: "The indictment is inexcusable...It seems to be part of a general policy of intimidation." Would some ... More >>

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    December 17, 2009

    Clip Job: Barbara Long Takes Apart The Archer-Griffith Bout Of 1966

    Barbara Long, the Voice's no-nonsense boxing critic​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 21, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 40 On One Hand in a Two-Handed Society By Barbara Long Three one-handed wonders showed up at Madison Square Garden last week. Joey Archer was there to tak ... More >>

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    November 2, 2009

    Clip Job: Barbara Long Has a Boxing Proposition

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 2, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 7 The Lady Proposes A Final Solution By Barbara Long Hell's bells, baby, it's not my fault, so don't blame me. Okay, I like fights. I'm not ashamed of that. True, there is a copy of Nat Fleischer's "Fif ... More >>

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    December 17, 2008

    Clip Job: Hentoff Remembers the Maine

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 2, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 7 The Lady Proposes A Final Solution By Barbara Long Hell's bells, baby, it's not my fault, so don't blame me. Okay, I like fights. I'm not ashamed of that. True, there is a copy of Nat Fleischer's "Fif ... More >>

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    September 10, 2008

    Clip Job: Kempton on Castro

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 2, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 7 The Lady Proposes A Final Solution By Barbara Long Hell's bells, baby, it's not my fault, so don't blame me. Okay, I like fights. I'm not ashamed of that. True, there is a copy of Nat Fleischer's "Fif ... More >>

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    July 15, 2008

    In Honor of Our National Pastime: MLB Police Blotter

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 2, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 7 The Lady Proposes A Final Solution By Barbara Long Hell's bells, baby, it's not my fault, so don't blame me. Okay, I like fights. I'm not ashamed of that. True, there is a copy of Nat Fleischer's "Fif ... More >>

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    April 16, 2008

    Clip Job: Nat Hentoff on Steve Allen, TV Critic

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 2, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 7 The Lady Proposes A Final Solution By Barbara Long Hell's bells, baby, it's not my fault, so don't blame me. Okay, I like fights. I'm not ashamed of that. True, there is a copy of Nat Fleischer's "Fif ... More >>

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    April 2, 2008

    Clip Job: The New York Post: Sudsy Liberalism?

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 2, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 7 The Lady Proposes A Final Solution By Barbara Long Hell's bells, baby, it's not my fault, so don't blame me. Okay, I like fights. I'm not ashamed of that. True, there is a copy of Nat Fleischer's "Fif ... More >>

  • News

    December 21, 2004

    Jack Newfield, 1938-2004

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 2, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 7 The Lady Proposes A Final Solution By Barbara Long Hell's bells, baby, it's not my fault, so don't blame me. Okay, I like fights. I'm not ashamed of that. True, there is a copy of Nat Fleischer's "Fif ... More >>

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