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046-057_JUN_CM_AM.qxp 5/13/10 1:37 PM Page 46 046-057_JUN_CM_AM.qxp 5/13/10 1:38 PM Page 47 PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CRAIG RUSNAK AND ANNMARIE M From the archives Who or what was the subject of the cover story The big daddy of Gonzo We tagged along as “counter-culture kamikaze” Hunter Thompson in Columbus Monthly’s C roared into town for a lecture at Mershon Auditorium. CALLISTER 1975 first issue, in June? “Thompson FILE (2) announced that he was going to a) Cornelius Greene, Ohio State’s talk on the radio, first African-American and that he would need some quarterback lubrication. Where could b) The Channel 6 news strike they get some booze? Pull over. c) The Rev. Leroy Jenkins He spotted a combination chop suey joint d) Victorian Village and carryout. He charged inside and emerged What were they thinking? with a cold six- After a newsstand clerk snitched on pack of Black him to a TV reporter, Gov. James Label tucked Rhodes claimed he bought a copy under his arm. of the blockbuster August issue of The poptops Hustler magazine featuring nude popped. The photos of Jacqueline Kennedy foam sprayed.” Onassis for research purposes. “I’ve always been a historical buff on first ladies,” he said. As told to Columbus Monthly “I think some of my answers are abrupt and some of them tend to be long; that does not mean they are circular. On the other hand, perhaps some of them are circular.” Y E A R S —Columbus Mayor Tom Moody Riverside Hospital discovered a By Dave Ghose and Ben Zenitsky 1976 miscalibrated cobalt machine had overradiated about 400 cancer patients, The ups and downs of the city have played out in the pages of Columbus Monthly : sparking years of litigation. triumph, tragedy, scandal, colorful characters, bizarre political theater and embarrassing gaffes, including a few of our own. Check out the good, the bad and This man became editor of the Citizen-Journal, a position the ugly, as well as test your Columbus IQ with quiz questions (see answers on page 57.) he’d hold until the paper’s final printing on Dec. 31, 1985. What’s his name? 46 Columbus Monthly • JUNE 2010 Columbus Monthly • JUNE 2010 47 046-057_JUN_CM_AM.qxp 5/13/10 1:39 PM Page 48 046-057_JUN_CM_AM.qxp 5/13/10 1:40 PM Page 49 The Columbus Clippers made their debut, playing at Cooper Stadium. However, it wasn’t From the archives called Cooper Stadium until 1984. What was Just one year Pumping Iron its name from ’77 to ’84? Arnold Schwarzenegger mixed with Columbus Mayor Tom after Jerome Moody and Worthington Mayor James Lorimer (later a partner in Schottenstein a) Red Bird Stadium b) Jets Stadium the Arnold Fitness Expo) during a press junket in Columbus for the Ohio premi`ere of Pumping Iron, the documentary that put the future purchased a chain governor of California on the map. c) Franklin County Stadium d) Mound Street Stadium “When Schwarzenegger addressed the gathering, it was of department apparent that he is as good a politician as the two he sat between. He praised Columbus as a great sports city, which has, of course, This Democrat unseated stores, he FILE (2) never been an unpopular opinion in this town, and insisted that announced he was bodybuilding had never found a better audience than it had here. Samuel Devine, the 1977 And he made it all seem gracious and eminently reasonable.” 1980 Republican who’d held 1982 closing them. the Ohio 12th district seat Which chain was it? in the U.S. House of a) Molly’s Representatives since 1959. Name him. b) Jolly’s FILE c) O’Malley’s d) Halle’s Evan Whallon, What were we thinking? music director of If the cleavage, safari hat and cheesy backdrop don’t make you cringe, then the juxtaposition the Columbus of the suggestive photo with the cover line Symphony What were we thinking? (“Controlling your own little jungle”) is sure to Orchestra since Photography editor Jeff Rycus defended that notorious do the trick. 1956, retired. symbol of 1970s tackiness—the leisure suit. “It offers A Franklin County jury declared Jack Carmen innocent of the more flexibility than a traditional suit,” he said. “You can brutal murder of 14-year-old Christie Mullins, culminating one be casual, but still dressed for the occasion.” of the most gripping legal dramas in Columbus history. Roughly 500,000 From the archives people descended On the cover of our Jack Hanna was named The school board’s on downtown for September issue, a banner Accused campus serial director of the struggling rapist Billy Milligan angry man the first of what Columbus Zoo. across the top assured became a national We profiled Bill Moss in the sensation after he pleaded early years of his nearly quarter- would become an readers: “Inside: NOTHING not guilty by reason of century tenure as Columbus’s most outspoken and unpredictable annual Columbus Nationwide Plaza in northern about ” insanity and was diagnosed with 10 politician. tradition. What downtown was dedicated in May. separate personalities. “In his public role, Moss can a) Robert Redford be alternately harsh and was it? The insurance giant’s original plan charming, bombastic and 1979 had been to build its headquarters 1978 persuasive, sullen and effusive. b) Brubaker a) Columbus Arts Festival 1981 In the first post-Woody It’s impossible to predict from in what other part of Central Ohio? season, quarterback Art one week to the next how he’ll c) Woody Schlichter led Ohio behave, what issue he’ll sink his teeth into, what political b) Festival Latino a) Bexley b) Canal Winchester State to an undefeated office he’ll decide to run for next. At his best, he’s a powerful d) Harold Enarson regular season record speaker with excellent recall for facts and figures; there c) Red, White & Boom! before losing to USC aren’t many politicians around who can whip Bill Moss in a c) Muirfield d) Delaware County 17-16 in the Rose Bowl. head-to-head debate if Moss has done his homework.” d) Arnold Classic 48 Columbus Monthly • JUNE 2010 Columbus Monthly • JUNE 2010 49 046-057_JUN_CM_AM.qxp 5/13/10 1:41 PM Page 50 046-057_JUN_CM_AM.qxp 5/13/10 1:41 PM Page 51 What was the name of the Chef and restaurateur Kent sculpture Mayor Buck Rinehart Rigsby opened Rigsby’s in the tried to give to the city of Genoa, gritty Short North Italy, without the knowledge of neighborhood. city council? FILE a) “Souls in Flight” b) “Brushstrokes in Flight” 1986 1988 c) “Flight of Emptiness” 1984 Who is this Ohio State freshman? d) “Flight of the Conchords” FILE Columbus Mayor Buck Who is this Rinehart appointed From the archives Columbus radio Watergate figure Jeb The toughest SOBs in town! personality Stuart Magruder We celebrated the city’s meanest, roughest, no-nonsense to head a city ethics whip crackers, including cover boy Bernie Karsko, the (photographed commission. Dispatch’s fearsome city editor. in the 1950s)? “He’s been known to send green reporters back to the same crime scene five or six times, each time demanding some new piece of information. His acid Two people were trampled, a 7-year-old girl questions quickly eat through a flimsily researched Former Battelle engineer Tommy story, and his compliments are few and far between. and a man were hospitalized and one man He may manage through intimidation and fear, but Thompson, backed by several he manages. Stories coming from the Dispatch city Columbus business heavyweights, set lost three teeth when what occurred? desk have probably never been more accurate or off in search of sunken treasure. more thorough. Karsko may not be Mr. Charm, but in the newspaper business, a) A helicopter dropped coupons for free turkeys nice guys are often the ones who wind up in court being sued for libel.” Ohio State president Ed Jennings fired over the Westerville mall parking lot before football coach Earle Bruce, who Thanksgiving. Which Ohio governor ordered the closing of 71 subsequently sued the university and b) The Super Nintendo entertainment system was Woody Hayes returned Jennings for $7.5 million. Bruce’s lawyer, released at City Center the day after to Ohio Stadium for the first savings and loan institutions to combat the Thanksgiving. time since his firing five financial crisis of the mid 1980s? meanwhile, speculated publicly that his years earlier to dot the “i” client was fired for what reason? c) The Goodyear blimp dropped what turned out to a) Jim Rhodes b) Dick Celeste during the OSU band’s be fake dollar bills at the Ohio State-Iowa game. “Script Ohio” performance a) Jennings’s “overt disregard of the Ohio State c) George Voinovich d) Rutherford B. Hayes at the Wisconsin game. football program.” d) Panzera’s Pizza gave out free pies to the first 50 1983 1985 1987 people through the door to mark its anniversary. 1989 b) Jennings’s “desire to feel at least somewhat What Columbus landmark As told to Columbus Monthly productive during his tenure.” “He has tremendous potential, but so far he’s really been closed? more of an irritant.” What were they thinking? —A civic leader commenting on Les Wexner, c) Jennings’s “carousing and excessive drinking.” Col. Jack Walsh, the superintendent of the a) Ohio Penitentiary b) Deshler Hotel the Limited Brands founder who made Ohio Highway Patrol, was fired for taking a Columbus Monthly’s list of the city’s most d) Jennings’s “lifelong nincompoopery.” free trip to South Africa as a guest of the powerful people for the first time.