Society of the Silurians EXCELLENCE IN AWARDS BANQUET The Players Club 16 Gramercy Park South Thursday, May 17th In Honor of ROBERT LIPSYTE Drinks: 6 p.m. Dinner: 7:15 p.m. Meet old friends Merriment e-mail: [email protected] Reservations: Published by The Society of The Silurians, Inc. an organization of veteran City journalists founded in 1924 (212) 532-0887 by Charles Edward Russell, William O. Inglis, Perry Walton, and David G. Baillie. Members and One Guest $100 Each Non-Members $120 THE OLDEST PRESS CLUB IN THE MAY 2012 Crème de la Crème of NY Journalism Top Silurians 2012 Honors Sports Columnist/Author Robert Lipsyte Winner of Prestigious Peter Kihss Award By Eve Berliner

In a season of fierce competition, The Society of the Silurians 2012 Ex- cellence in Journalism Awards Com- petition, was once again distin- guished by the highest caliber of journalistic work. Now in its 88th year, the contenders fought it out with distinction and commit- Robert Lipsyte ment to truth and the human condition. Among a few of the greats: The Record’s stunning revelation of chromium contamination under- ground in the small city of Garfield, New Jersey, a toxic landscape where the poison flowed for de- cades, an exposé of life and death implications; Bloomberg Markets’ gut- wrenching probe into “Crime and Human Organs,” the market in or- gan trafficking run by murderous multinational criminal gangs who capture their prey over four conti- nents, desperate victims who struggle in life-threatening poverty Marcus Santos/Daily News and are willing [or not willing] to sell Winner in Breaking News Photography, the Daily News’ Marcus Santos, for a photograph of gripping power, “We’re Going Down,” the pilot’s their organs for survival; last words as his chopper plunged into the East River. Santos was able to capture the frantic rescue effort by police, fire vessels and The Daily News’ sports investi- emergency workers, as the dive team pulled victim Helen Tamaki, 43, from the waters. Tragically, she passed away later that evening. There gative team’s exhaustive and com- were three survivors. plex, year-long financial investiga- tion of the officially sealed – and Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi Scheme case against the Mets and Madoff. deeply personal reflections on the tenth then leaked – $1 billion lawsuit filed the owners of the . A relent- And finally, the Reporters of 1010 anniversary of 9/11, an extraordinary, by the Bankruptcy Trustee in the less probe of the entanglement of the Wilpons, WINS Radio who offered their own Continued on Page 3

‘Pinstripe Empire’ while the expected owner, one James Kennedy, was found dead in a subway car. By Marty Appel (Devery mapped out the ticker tape pa- rade route still employed in New York). Three years ago, I was offered To be complete, the book needed things an opportunity to write a history of like the Broadway musical the Yankees. The book, Pinstripe (based on a book); the breakthrough book Empire comes out this spring, and Ball Four, (by with Leonard hard as it is to believe, it’s the first Shechter), the shocking departure of broad- narrative history of the Yanks in al- caster , just 51, the Tammany most 70 years. Hall politics of subway construction and To take on the task while keep- ballpark location, the creation of the YES ing it to a manageable length (well, television network, the building of a new 640 pages), I knew it needed to in- stadium and the team’s slow path to inte- clude not only the big moments, but gration. also the backstage stories of why And there was the slim legacy of the things happened and who all of CBS ownership, which includes the dark these larger-than life personalities blue seats, the “” really were. theme (as recorded by the Mitch Miller Who, for instance, was Winnie singers), the presence of an organ in the Weyant, who inherited a third of the park ( played organ on CBS Yankees when the bachelor owner soaps), and well, not much else. Col. died in 1939? It was during the CBS years that I first Ah, she was his “friend.” began working in the PR department, even- And who were the scoundrels tually succeeding Bob Fishel as PR Di- who first owned the team (the High- rector. And it was in 1975 that I wrote my landers), one of whom, Bill Devery, The Star-Ledger first book, biographies of all the Hall of was considered “the most corrupt The formidable , principal owner of the , in a love-hate Famers. For that, I relied heavily on a set police chief in New York history,” embrace with his contentious manager, , at the Writer’s Dinner, 1982. Continued on Page 5 PAGE 2 SILURIAN NEWS MAY 2012 Robert Lipsyte: A Reporter’s Destiny

By Gary Paul Gates

Early on in his splendid memoir, An Accidental Sportswriter, Robert Lipsyte deals with the question implied in the book’s title. So what’s with the adjec- tive? Why accidental? Lipsyte begins his story in the summer of 1957 when, having just graduated from Columbia, he landed a job as a copyboy in the sports department of . He viewed that gig as a tempo- rary lark, a mere way station where he hoped to earn the cash he needed to fi- nance his big career plan to migrate to California. “Once out there,” he confi- dently wrote, “I would fulfill my destiny as a novelist, either starving on the beach because my fiction was too avant-garde or luxuriating by the side of my pool be- cause I had sold out. Both scenarios involved dangerous women.” Then, by way of explaining that romantic reverie, he added: “I was an English major.” Barton Silverman/“An Accidental Sportswriter” Well, he certainly came by that hon- Robert Lipsyte at an Emile Griffith-Nino Benvenuti title fight at , 1967. estly. Lipsyte grew up in a bookish home in the Rego Park section of . Both Lipsyte kept putting terpiece of that long journey, the experi- of his parents were educators who shared off his quest to mingle ence that shaped his career and height- a strong commitment to the public school with dangerous women ened his sensibility, was his coverage of system. His mother was a teacher and in California. His stint Muhammad Ali. It began with Ali’s first guidance counselor, and his father was a as a copyboy at the championship fight in 1964 (when he was principal. They were, in short, serious Times extended beyond still known by what he later described as people with serious intellectual concerns, the summer of ‘57, and his “slave name” – Cassius Clay) and it and as such, they had no interest in sports into the following year, extended through the rest of that turbu- and similar frivolities. Sidney Lipsyte was and into the year after lent decade and beyond, well into the sev- far more likely to take his son to a library that. He chose to stay enties. than to some ball game. not because of the “Ali was my first Big Story,” Lipsyte As for Bob, he discovered at an early copyboy job – which he wrote in his memoir. “He put my name age that he had no aptitude for athletics, hated – but because he on page one. He made me a columnist. and – like father, like son – little or no loved working at the He was also the single most important interest in watching others show off their Times, loved being a sporting lens through which I learned skills on various fields of play. Also, dur- part of that high-minded about politics, religion, race and hero wor- ing most of his childhood, he suffered from institution. And his re- ship.” obesity and, even worse, from the inevi- ward for sticking around The learning process began in Miami table taunts that schoolmates hurl at fat came in the fall of 1959 Beach, the site of that 1964 heavyweight kids. “Lippo the Hippo” was just one of when he was promoted title bout. No one expected it to be much the verbal indignities he had to endure. to reporter. That move of a fight. The reigning champion, Sonny His early literary endeavors mainly con- put Bob squarely on a Liston, was deemed to be invincible, and sisted of lurid stories in which thin kids career track in sports with good reason. A ferocious slugger, were tortured to death. But he was a journalism, and except he had won the title by knocking out Floyd whiz in the classroom and that enabled for a few detours here Patterson in the first round and then, just him to leapfrog through the system, skip- and there, that’s the yel- to prove that was no fluke, he hammered ping several grades along the way. As a NYWTS low brick road he would the hapless Patterson to the canvas for result, he was only 19 when he gradu- The great Muhammad Ali, idolized and vilified, in an era in- follow over the next another first-round kayo in the rematch. ated from Columbia in June of 1957. flamed by war and racial struggle, 1967. half-century. The cen- Continued on Page 5

some days begin at 10 am, while others – England Journal of Medicine, People Spotlight: Good Morning America those which require me to be in the studio Magazine and scores of websites – ev- to oversee a segment – get under way at erything from TMZ to the Huffington Post. By Mary Pflum So – how hard could producing GMA 4 am. On those early-to-rise days, I have Continued on Page 6 be? become an expert at applying makeup in I joined the ranks of Good Morning The answer: Very. Working as a net- total darkness, and drinking my first cup America nearly a decade ago – in the fall work morning show producer is very, of coffee in complete silence, so as not to of 2002. At the time in which I accepted very hard. Many would argue it’s among awaken my husband and children before the offer to become a producer in GMA’s the hardest of jobs in television. Particu- slipping out the door. field and series unit, I remember thinking: larly in the current climate. It’s also among Working as a morning show producer producing a morning news show – how the most fun. Ultimately, it’s given me a does not require me to have an encyclo- hard could that be? You see, though I was lifetime of memories I wouldn’t trade for pedic knowledge of the world, but it does only 29, I considered myself a news vet- anything in the world. require me to know a little bit about a eran. I had gone to work for CNN at age But before we get to the fun (of which whole lot. That’s because morning show 20 and had traveled the world, first as an there is plenty), let’s talk about the chal- viewers expect so much. As they roll out entry-level video journalist (also known as lenges. of bed, they want to know what’s hap- a vee-jay) in Atlanta, then as an associate First, there are the hours. In morning pened in the hours they’ve been asleep – producer at CNN International and even- television, no two days are alike. That and what kinds of information might give tually as a producer and reporter based in unpredictability can make for harrowing them a leg up at the office or at the school Europe. I had trekked through a blizzard schedules. When I started at GMA, a day drop-off. They want to hear the latest from in Transylvania to tell the story of Europe’s that began at 10 am often stretched until the campaign trail, interesting tidbits from biggest cyanide spill, dodged checkpoints 4 am the following morning. Sometimes court-cases-of-the-moment, and who got and machine-gun-toting men in Afghani- even longer, when it was necessary to voted off Dancing with the Stars. They stan to score a piece on the Taliban, weath- see a piece through until it aired at 7 am. want the 4-1-1 on the latest job numbers, ered my first major earthquake (a 7.8 that The bar was high: video needed to be the a peek at the engagement ring Brad Pitt killed some 20,000) while setting up a net- freshest possible, graphics had to be the gave to Angelina Jolie, and diet tips that work, CNN-Turk, in Istanbul. And along slickest possible and the information had will enable them to squeeze into a pair of Mary Pflum, with her Writer’s Guild of the way I had learned how to shoot a cam- to be the most up-to-the-minute. With the skinny jeans. America Award for distinguished work on era and edit stories with the best of ‘em. I ratings race with the Today Show so in- As a result, morning show producers Good Morning America. She is also the re- (arrogantly) thought I knew TV – and tense then – as it is now – there was no need to be on top of a plethora of publica- cipient of three Emmy Awards and a knew it well. excuse for coming up short. These days, tions : the New York Times, the New duPont. MAY 2012 SILURIAN NEWS PAGE 3

SCIENCE/HEALTH REPORTING MERIT AWARDS/ ship teacher’s disparaging transgressions 2012 Honors Winner in Science/Health reporting, SPORTS REPORTING [Tie] against Lesbian, Bisexual and Continued from Page 1 Gardiner Harris of The New York Times To the Sports Staff of The New York Transgender History Month in her com- poignant and gripping remembrance by for penetrating the stunning revolution Times for its powerful and tenacious ments on Facebook, and the implosion of those who lived it, covered it, moving one underway in the psychiatric world with coverage of the scandal that gripped the former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine to tears. “Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns nation, “The Penn State Sex Abuse in what Doblin depicts as “an American Among the top multiple award winners, Instead to Drug Therapy.” With insur- Scandal,” and the downfall of the re- tragedy.” The New York Times swept ahead with ance companies the decisive force, medi- vered college football legend, Coach Joe PRINT PHOTOGRAPHY 7, followed by Vanity Fair and The cation dominates after brief consultation, Paterno. The accused predator, Jerry BREAKING NEWS/ Record tied at 4, Bloomberg News with a near abandonment of traditional psycho- Sandusky’s first interview appeared in PHOTOGRAPHY 3. The Judges include Nat Brandt, Jerry therapy, the revelations of self replaced the New York Times, the psychic re- Winner in Breaking News/Photogra- Eskenazi, Mark Marchese, Alan Morton, with a pill, the inner explorations of percussions inside the victim’s lives phy, the Daily News’ Marcus Santos for Martin Steadman, and Eve Berliner, Sigmund Freud and Karl Jung no longer delved into with persistence and under- “We’re Going Down,” his heart-stopping, Chairman. lucrative. standing. wrenching, depiction of the fatal helicop- The coveted Peter Kihss Award this MERIT AWARD/ MERIT AWARDS/ ter crash into the East River on October year belongs to the brilliant and penetrat- SCIENCE HEALTH SPORTS REPORTING [Tie} 5, 2011, and the dramatic rescue effort ing American sports journalist and author, To Candice Ferrette of Newsday for To John Branch of The New York that ensued. As a dive team pulled Helen Robert Lipsyte. A sports reporter and col- “Marisa: a Little Girl’s Fight to Live,” an Times for “The Life and Death of a Tamaki, 43, out of the water and pushed umnist with the New York Times for over in-depth portrait of a once beautiful child Hockey Enforcer,” the story of Derek her onto a life raft, Santos was positioned fifty years, he was a champion of struck down by a mysterious, rare child- Boogaard, whose vicious fists and bru- just 150 feet from where the action was Muhammad Ali in the dark and cataclys- hood brain disorder that triggers rapid tal assaults on opponents proclaimed unfolding. Tragically, the woman perished mic Vietnam years. His acclaimed book, obesity and severe respiratory difficul- him the number one most feared En- that evening, leaving three other victims “Free to Be Muhammad Ali” was pub- ties. It is called ROHHAD. There is no forcer in the N.H.L. At age 28, clinging to life. lished in 1978. See story page 2. cure. The resilience and spirit of this Boogaard was found dead of an acci- FEATURE NEWS/ Here are the winners: brave child shine through the three re- dental overdose of prescription drugs PHOTOGRAPHY PRINT JOURNALISM ports by Ferrette and photographer, and alcohol. Beautifully written, riv- Winner in Feature Photography, The BREAKING NEWS Alejandra Villa. In the aftermath of this eting and moving in its detail, Branch Record’s Chris Pedota for “Yes, They To the and crime re- series, the family’s Foundation raised unveils the hard truth that profes- Do!” a historic day for same-sex mar- porters, Larry Celona, Jamie Schram, Dan $250,000 for further research with new sional hockey was complicit in his riage in New York, as the second and third Mangan and Jose Martinez for “Fallen Fin- hope for Marisa. death. gay couples to be married in the city est,” a police officer fa- emerge joyfully from the New York City tally shot in the face during a drug rob- Clerk’s Office, marriage licenses in hand! bery, the officer, Peter Figoski, a 22-year MAGAZINES veteran of the force and a single Dad INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING/ struggling to raise four daughters alone. MAGAZINES The Post pieced together the complex un- To Michael Smith, Daryna folding of events and the heroic actions Krasnolutska, David Glovin and David of Figoski’s partner, Glenn Estrada, who Voreacos of Bloomberg Markets maga- pursued the suspect and captured him. zine, for their stunning exposé of ruthless- MERIT AWARD/ ness and human despair in “Crime and BREAKING NEWS Human Organs,” the sale of kidneys by To The Wall Street Journal and its in- the desperate poor to wealthy Americans, tensive, round-the-clock coverage of the Europeans and Israelis, organ traffickers Occupy Wall Street movement by report- and doctors from Belarus to Nicaragua ers Andrew Grossman, Alison Fox, Sean engaged in deadly surgeries with tragic Gardiner and team leader, Jessica Firger. consequences for donors and recipients “Wall Street Protesters Evicted from on the black market of greed. Camp,” proclaimed the morning’s head- COMMENTARY/MAGAZINES line after the NYPD’s stunning pre-dawn Winner in Magazine Commentary, Jo- sweep cleared out the tent city and sent seph E. Stiglitz of Vanity Fair for his pow- shockwaves through the activists. erful manifesto, “Of the 1%, By the 1%, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Chris Pedota/The Record For the 1%,” the concentration of mas- Winner in Investigative Reporting, an Winner in Feature Photography, The Record’s Chris Pedota, for capturing the historic sive wealth in the hands of an elite plu- explosive series by The New York Times’ first day of legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State. Exiting the New York tocracy, American democracy itself jeop- Danny Hakim and Russell Buettner, “State City Clerk’s Office, he caught the second and third couples to be joined in matrimony as ardized by this extreme inequality as the Run Group Homes: Abuse and Death for they burst from the building with joy. “Yes, They Do!” wealthy become more resistant to spend- the Developmentally Disabled,” a pow- ing on the common need, foreign policy is erful excavation of hidden sexual abuse, BUSINESS/FINANCIAL COMMUNITY SERVICE shaped to the advantage of the 1%, as vicious violence, and 1200 “unexplained” REPORTING To Scott Fallon and The Record for are tax and economic policies, hallmarks deaths among the developmentally dis- To Max Abelson, Michael McDonald, “Toxic Landscape – Chromium: DEP Let of the American ideal discarded in the abled in the care of state run group homes, and Martin Z. Braun of Bloomberg News Poison Flow for Decades,” an industrial selfish interest of the few. in the past decade.. Case after case, im- for “The Apocalypse That Never Hap- accident involving a three ton spill of BUSINESS/FINANCIAL/ punity for the criminal actions of employ- pened.” The hysteria of the financial hexavalent chromium in the small city of MAGAZINES ees who are simply moved from one group media over imminent collapse of the Garfield, NJ, swept under the rug for al- To New York Magazine and Steve home to another. Relentless pursuit of municipal bond market, triggered by the most thirty years until it started migrating Fishman for his two year triumphant cam- the facts by Hakim and Buettner, poring dire warnings of star Wall Street analyst, under homes, contaminating the ground paign to penetrate the duplicitous crimi- through 10,000 pages of state documents Meredith Whitney, were meticulously water, the food chain, with toxic sites ev- nal mind of Bernard Madoff. Blocked in with more than 200 interviews to bring scrutinized by the Bloomberg team who erywhere, the cancer rate soaring and the his pursuit by the Federal Bureau of Pris- this shocking injustice to light. proved that these predictions had no ba- industrial property owner undaunted by ons, and with the aid of a former drug FEATURE REPORTING sis in fact, and, additionally, the volumi- fines and threats of jail. The EPA dealer, “Madoff on Madoff” came to be Winner in Feature Reporting, The New nous data contained in her own report, Superfund Cleanup division promises — hours of intimate conversation with York Times’ Amy Harmon for “Autistic failed to back up Whitney’s apocalyptic clean-up in the coming years. Madoff and his conscience. A fascinat- and Seeking a Place in An Adult World,” scenario. MERIT AWARD/ ing unburdening by the mastermind of an in-depth, tender exploration of three SPORTS REPORTING COMMUNITY SERVICE The Big Lie who asserts to Fishman that young adults afflicted with autism and To Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, For Michael Barbaro, Nicholas he is misunderstood by the world, and struggling to face the challenges of life. Michael O’Keeffe, Wayne Coffey, Chris- Confessore, Danny Hakim and Thomas that he is not an evil man. There is an intimacy to the portraits with tian Red and the Daily News sports inves- Kaplan of The New York Times, for “The FEATURE REPORTING/ greater understanding and empathy for tigative team for its scrupulous, massive, Legalization of Same Sex Marriage in MAGAZINES those afflicted.with this difficult condition. unearthing of the financial morass linking New York,” an exhaustive look at the Winner in Feature Writing/ Magazines, MERIT AWARD/FEATURE the Wilpons, the Mets and Madoff in the course the proposed legalization of gay is Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott for “Pepé A rather unknown aspect of the 9/11 sealed (later leaked) $1 billion lawsuit filed marriage took as the New York State Le Perp,” a complex, cutting and provoca- chronicle has been brought to light ten by the bankruptcy trustees in the Bernard Legislature grappled with the political im- tive discussion of the Dominique Strauss- years after the tragedy, with The L. Madoff Ponzi scheme. Thousands of plications of the issue, the nation watched, Kahn sexual assault affair, the ensuing Record’s uplifting report by Lindy pages of financial documents, e-mails, the Governor pushed, and the dramatic media spectacle in New York and Paris, Washburn, “9/11 A Decade Later: Fear depositions and court papers were exam- behind-the-scenes conversations unfolded the incitement of class warfare and re- Sent Scores of Jets to Canada.” As the ined, interviews with the parties, the at- that led to the historic passage of the leg- percussions throughout the cultural world United States abruptly closed its airspace, torneys, baseball officials and former islation. – from “Saturday Night Live” to the in- Gander, Newfoundland became a safe Mets employees, and the insidious role EDITORIAL WRITING AND ner sanctums of the French Presidency. harbor for 38 international aircraft, 6,700 played by the SEC whose own general COMMENTARY ARTS/CULTURE/ MAGAZINES passengers and crew, 17 dogs and cats counsel earned more than $1.5 million in For the distinguished editorial accom- To William D. Cohan and ARTnews for and a pair of great apes, a world of gen- profits from Madoff even as he was af- plishments of Alfred P. Doblin of The “MoMA’s Problematic Provenances,” a erosity – food, clothing and a safe place fecting policy in the case, a blatant and Record, for his moving editorials on the searching examination of the Museum of to sleep – amid the crisis and the fear. outrageous conflict of interest. tenth anniversary of 9/11, a Union Town- Continued on Page 4 PAGE 4 SILURIAN NEWS MAY 2012

silver standard and hoarded a huge collec- disgrace to the Irish was this vicious poi- chased by General Electric and became tion of silver ingots in the name of the sec- sonous snake but to humanity also. He an honest politician which according to Celtic Blast retary in hopes of achieving that standard. tried to learn German so that he could honest John Kelly of Tammany Hall is By Malachy McCourt Not too well known is the fact that St. read Mein Kampf in the original. one who when bought stays bought and Patrick banished the snakes from Ireland George Bernard Shaw wrote that Ire- that was Ronnie. The United States had When our esteemed editor Eve asked and they came here and became conser- land is like no other place under the its first woman president during Ronnie’s me to write a piece on that fair and bal- vatives. heavens. No man has touched the sod Alzheimer reign, his wife Nancy. He at- anced lad Bill O’Reilly I said yes without To paraphrase James Joyce quote, in the or breathed its air without being changed tempted to emulate JFK who spoke in thinking on what the content would be. spirits of Irish fun they betray their prin- for the better or the worst. It produces Berlin by learning in German, “Mr. His mother went to bed presumably with two kinds of men in Gorbachev tear down this wall,” but he a man that was his father and nine months strange profusion, was told he might as well be talking to later Bill popped out into a working-class Saints and traitors. the wall because Gorbachev didn’t un- Irish-American family, got into talking and Another well dis- derstand German and Ronnie didn’t have reading, dangerous areas for a man of guised changeling was the requisite six months to learn that sen- Celtic descent because they usually are one William Buckley tence in Russian so the wall collapsed convinced that they are an inferior breed. who liked nothing bet- laughing. His number one book would be the life ter than to be mistaken The O’Reilly betrayals go back a long and times of Benedict Arnold, the favor- for an upper-class Brit- way. A John O’Reilly came to Canada in ite reading of many Irish Americans. The ish. He looked like a the British Army and promptly deserted themes of treachery and betrayal and in- constipated cobra and across the border and joined the United forming took command of what is left of spoke as if he were try- States Army. The United States was do- all of my 80 year old mind, and how it is ing to maintain a firm ing terrible things to Mexico, pillaging and that so many of my fellow Celts eventu- grip on the red-hot raping their women, so John deserted the ally become, as the Irish writer George roast potato stuck be- United States Army and went over to the Russell said, the thing you hate most. And tween the cheeks of his Mexican side just before war was de- TheChieftains.com Bill O’Reilly like many changelings pros- Celtic warrior, Malachy McCourt. arse set. His type was clared. He formed the San Patricio bri- pered mightily and monetarily on this sale known as Castle Irish gade which fought against the United of the soul. How does it happen that the ciples one by one. People often wonder why as they have sold out so long ago they States till Mexico was defeated. They Irish-American covers his treachery with England has been able to occupy Ireland were allowed to enter through the ser- hanged a bunch of the San Patricio’s but the patriotic cloak. Father Charles for 900 years, the longest occupation in so- vants entrance like all the other snakes O’Reilly escaped hanging as he had de- Coughlin over Royal Oaks Michigan, a called civilization. Why? How? Because who came here because they didn’t have serted before war was officially declared. priest mind you who would have run for every single rebellion, every revolution, a pit to hiss in. The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded office as vice president in 1936 but a small every insurrection, every rising was be- Then there’s one with an Irish sound- to Fox News. The convenient thing about matter of being born in Canada knocked trayed by the Irish themselves, generally ing name Sean Hannity who resembles the cloak of conservatism is that the Irish him out of the running. Good old father men. Which brings us to one of the great- a freshly painted porta potty that from can slip it over their shoulders and pre- Coughlin had a huge radio following in est yahoos in the history of Irish treachery, the surrounding aroma has not been tend they are being patriotic and respect- the 1930s of people who were at one with one senator Joseph McCarthy. One whose emptied in a week. There is a lad brim- ful and if they stand on their tippy toes him on his admiration for Adolf Hitler and name means character assassination, ming with the sincere devotion of the they can kiss Royal backsides, Austra- his not well concealed anti-Semitism. He backstabbing, rolling in sewers, destruction righteous whose dental bills are paid by lian arses and indeed most arses. Con- was eventually silenced by the church but of decency. McCarthy was a fake. the union. servatives are very moral people as they that damage has never been undone. It McCarthy was a fake patriot who got a Ronnie Reagan the great prevarica- can point out your character defects in was odd that he attacked Jewish Wall Purple Heart after a drunken fall on his tor started as an actor and got himself seconds and they know because their God Street but left the impression that the non- ship and he got a medal for machine-gun- elected president of the Screen Actors is conservative and will not allow liberals Jewish Wall Streeters were simply moral ning some coconuts on an island in the Pa- Guild. Twice said he saved the studios into heaven or THEM and we all know monetarians who were looking after the cific. It’s not known if he ever kissed Roy millions of dollars by blocking the pay- who THEM are. They may call them- hard-earned dollars of the middle classes. Cohn though he was observed holding ment of residuals to poverty-stricken selves fiscal conservatives but bigotry is Coughlin tried to convert the USA to the hands with J. Edgar Hoover. Not only a actors. Subsequently Ronnie was pur- at the root.

over the planet, in places where the Jersey Chief of Police, who billed the city Society of the Silurians regulations are few or non-existent, the tens of thousands of dollars for off-duty Officers 2012-2013 Awards 2012 overseas drug testing a shocking lapse security work which he did not perform, President Continued from Page 3 of morality and greed by the pharma- along with a handful of other influential MYRON KANDEL Modern Art’s painful and hidden history of ceuticals. officers who engaged in a First Vice-President ALAN DODDS FRANK acquiring Holocaust-era art of questionable BROADCASTING similar practice. “Kane in Your Corner,” Second Vice-President provenances, many of which were seized BREAKING NEWS/ RADIO uncovered this “No Show Policing “ BETSY ASHTON by the Nazis from German museums, from For its dramatic and detailed cover- scandal which resulted in an indepen- Secretary art dealers or from the artists themselves, age of the Occupy Wall Street Eviction dent internal investigation by the Mayor, LINDA AMSTER before finding their way into MoMA’s col- by reporters Sonia Rincon and Terry a resignation by the Police Chief, and Treasurer MORT SHEINMAN lections. Cohan focuses upon three paint- Sheridan, 1010 WINS on the scene, the possible criminal charges stemming Board of Governors ings by the German artist George Grosz, time, 1:00 a.m., November 15, 2011: from the New Jersey Attorney General. SALVATORE ARENA and the failed lawsuit against the Museum “NYPD now raiding Zucotti Park at ONLINE NEWS EXCELLENCE IRA BERKOW EVE BERLINER by his heirs in a tale of massive art theft this time,” Rincon’s vibrant BREAKING NEWS ONLINE JERRY ESKENAZI and widespread dispersal of the works. reporting capturing the unfolding chaos, To the Staff of Newsday for its for- RICKI FULMAN Cohan’s explorations bring to light MoMA’s the shock of the eviction, the police in midable Online Breaking News cover- LINDA GOETZ HOLMES BERNARD KIRSCH secret files, still hidden from public scru- full riot gear, floodlights, bullhorns, age of Tropical Storm Irene that hit MAX NICHOLS tiny, amid the larger story of Nazi art loot the protesters in stunned, with torrential impact and BEN PATRUSKY that has been pursued by ARTnews for the dazed disbelief: ”Wall Street occupiers destruction. As Hurricane Irene began KAREN BEDROSIAN- last 25 years. must leave or face arrest!” After two her march up the East Coast toward RICHARDSON JOAN SIEGEL MERIT AWARD/ARTS/CULTURE/ months of occupation, the evacuation Long Island, Newsday.com was there JOSEPH J. VECCHIONE MAGAZINES was ordered by Major Bloomberg amid with a constant stream of breaking news To James Kaplan and Vanity Fair for Governors Emeritus reports that the park had become a ha- video reports, round the clock alerts, GARY PAUL GATES “Over the Rainbow, And Then Some!” an ven for drug addicts, homeless people, warnings of hazardous conditions, a live HERBERT HADAD extraordinary portrait of Judy Garland, 37 filth and human waste, fire safety ulti- storm tracker, a power outage map, ROBERT D. McFADDEN years of age, on the precipice of total self- mately given as the reason for the hundreds of real-time UGC photographs Committee Chairpersons destruction via alcohol and pills, her ca- evacuation. submitted by viewers, and an archive

Advisory reer washed up in the miseries of her life, FEATURE NEWS/ RADIO of past Long Island brushes with the TONY GUIDA who somehow found that inner spark of Honors to 1010 WINS for “Sep- power of Mother Nature. The website Awards EVE BERLINER yearning and strength within her to triumph tember 11, 2001: A Personal Reflec- became a focal point for public com- Dinner with deep emotion in her 1961 classic tion from the 1010 WINS Reporters.” munication, reassurance and urgent in- MORT SHEINMAN Carnegie Hall performance, the audience This is an extraordinary, moving re- formation. Legal weeping in joy. membrance by the 1010 WINS re- MERIT AWARD/ONLINE KEN FISHER Membership SCIENCE/HEALTH/ MAGAZINES porters who lived it: Stan Brooks, BREAKING NEWS MORT SHEINMAN To the investigative team of Donald L. Mona Rivera, Terry Sheridan, Glenn To the Staff of DNAinfo.com for its Nominating Barlett and James B. Steele, for “Deadly Schuck, and producer David Plotkin, fast-moving coverage of the surprise MYRON KANDEL Medicine,” Vanity Fair’s searing exposé of each recounting their own deeply felt dawn police evacuation of Occupy Wall Silurian Contingency Fund Trustees LARRY FRIEDMAN, the lethal profit machine behind the global- bits and pieces of memory of that ter- Street from Zuccotti Park. With the full CHAIR ized pharmaceutical industry. Clinical drug rible tragic day. force of the NYPD descending on the NAT BRANDT trials are now being conducted, not in the TELEVISION/ INVESTIGATIVE tent city, chaos reigned. More than 200 JOY COOK MARK LIEBERMAN United States, but overseas on ill, home- REPORTING people were arrested in the raid as MARTIN J. STEADMAN less, slum-dwelling, impoverished peoples To News 12 New Jersey’s Walt DNA.com’s team of reporters contin- Silurian News in places like Iasi Romania, or Megrine, Kane for his probing and relentless ued to follow the tumultuous day’s EVE BERLINER, EDITOR Tunisia or Tartu, Estonia, and virtually all investigation into the Union City New Continued on Page 6 MAY 2012 SILURIAN NEWS PAGE 5

he stopped by manager Joe McCarthy’s Yankees Heyday office after the season’s final game, as Continued from Page 1 Marse Joe was packing up for his early of 16 team histories published by Putnam winter. McCarthy took a deep breath and in the ‘40s and ‘50s. said to those present, “If Dahlgren doesn’t The Yankee history was the first of the drop that throw, we win that game, and group, and it was written by Frank Gra- maybe we win the doubleheader. And ham, who spent a career with the New maybe we win the whole thing. And if York Sun, Look magazine and the Dahlgren wasn’t a marijuana user, maybe Journal-American. he doesn’t drop the throw.” It was appropriate that Graham, a jour- Bombshell, right? But, in the code of nalist, did that first history. As readers the day, unreported. People barely knew will discover, the role of the press in Ruth drank. history of baseball is fundamental. Base- As for Dahlgren, he soon found him- ball has helped to sell a lot of newspapers self pretty much blackballed out of the over the years, while for the teams, news- game. He was seldom a regular, and he papers have provided daily publicity for couldn’t stick with any club. He was their business. A Broadway show gets a baseball’s version of the migrant farm review but that’s pretty much the end of worker – a journeyman. He wound up the publicity trail. One day. With a base- spending the rest of his life trying to “clear ball team, it’s 365 days a year of free George Steinbrenner (center) with his first six publicity directors (l-r): Bob Fishel, Marty his good name,” (although no fans really Appel, Mickey Morabito, Larry Wahl, David Szen and Irv Kaze, 1982. press, even if not all of it makes the team knew his name had been sullied), until he happy. Neither entity should lose sight of died in 1996. what they do for each other. Of course I asked Drebby if he thought Graham’s Yankee history, published in Dahlgren was a marijuana smoker and 1943, was very good because there were John said “only jazz musicians smoked still some people around then – notably back then.” It meant he didn’t believe it. Mark Roth, the journalist turned traveling From stories that did make it into print, secretary – who went back almost to the we learn that Wee Willie Keeler of the beginning of the franchise in 1903. original Highlanders, would brush his hand Graham died in 1965, although his son, across the N or the Y on his uniform shirt Frank Jr., carried on the name as a sports- to signal “no” or “yes” if he was about to writer and Dodgers publicist execute a hit-and-run play. until leaving sports for a long career with Or this: In 1941, with war on the hori- Audubon Magazine. zon, general manager directed (I asked Frank Jr., now 86, to do a spe- that the Star Spangled Banner be played cial introduction which links the two books before each game, not just on Opening together, and he graciously agreed.) Day and holidays (since a public address The role of the press even extended to system had now been installed). It was the naming of the team and its home. an idea that once begun, was never re- Roth played a role in helping to name the versed. team “Yankees” and the Evening A personal favorite: during the war, fans Telegram’s nicknamed the new received instructions on where to congre- “The House That Ruth gate in the event air raid sirens sounded. Built” in 1923 (although the Babe pre- “In the event of an air raid attack,” read ferred hitting in the ). Roth the instructions, “whichever team is lead- also helped create the practice of travel- ing after five innings shall be declared the ing secretaries getting suites on the road, winner.” because often, hotels mixed up Roth and Marty Appel (age 19), with his hero, , 1968. In the 1970s, sportswriting took a new Ruth. This way, both got suites. turn. Empowered by Woodward and My early exposure to the old time writ- Yankees beat reporter in September, 1940 claimed it. Had they won the pennant Bernstein’s political reporting, and liber- ers and their never reported stories were when a dropped throw by Babe Dahlgren that year – they wound up losing by two ated by Ball Four, the press decided it helpful in bringing to light forgotten tales (’s successor at first base), cost games – they would have had an unprec- was they who would determine the news that deserve public notice. the Yanks the first game of a doubleheader edented run of eight straight pennants, of the day, forgoing the reliance on the Take the one John Drebinger of the in Cleveland. When they lost the second 1936-43. PR department’s press notes. It became Times harbored for years. He was the game, they fell out of first and never re- Drebinger told me in the early ‘70s that Continued on Page 6

Reporter’s Destiny with Liston, a sullen and thuggish ex-con, that winter, he quickly became aware that, Presidential Farewell rather than put up with Clay and his ob- as he later put it, “I had made my bones.” Continued from Page 2 noxious, over-the-top behavior. Confirmation of that came when the pa- “Ave atque Vale!” Almost to a man, the so-called experts Lipsyte refused to buy into that game. per anointed him to be its new boxing predicted that Clay, a brash young upstart Along with some of the other younger writer. And that, in turn, meant that he In Freshman Latin centuries ago who had talked his way into a title shot writers (Bob had just turned 26), he was inevitably would be doing more stories on at Fordham Prep I learned that’s how Romans parted. “Hail and he didn’t deserve, was headed to a simi- charmed by Clay’s vibrant personality and the new heavyweight champion, who was Farewell.” I’m poaching their lar fate. In fact, the only reason Lipsyte all the sassy patter. He also suspected on the verge of changing his name to salutation to tell was assigned to cover the bout was be- that the constant bragging and trash-talk- Muhammed Ali. The new identity made you how much cause the Times’ regular boxing writer, ing were nothing more than put-ons, ver- it clear that the persistent rumors Lipsyte I’ve enjoyed Joe Nichols, was so convinced that the bal pranks designed to get under the skin had heard in Miami Beach were true: Ali the past two years as fight was going to be another abrupt – of his surly rival and the overly earnest had formally embraced the Black Mus- president of our and boring – slaughter that he decided to press corps. lims, a militant religious sect whose core esteemed give it a pass. Still, even though Lipsyte found Clay message called for the separation of the confraternity. I But most of the big-time boxing writ- entertaining, fun to be around, he shared races. In the context of the mid-sixties, began the job ers did make the trip to Miami Beach, the prevailing view that the challenger had that alone would have been enough to jittery, plenty nervous about and Lipsyte couldn’t help but notice that no chance of beating Liston. Hence, he alienate millions of Americans, black and meeting the many of them didn’t like Clay. In par- was as stunned as his older ringside col- white, who were avidly supporting the civil Tony Guida challenge. Your ticular, the high-profile columnists with the leagues were by what happened on fight rights movement and its campaigns to support, your large reputations – Jimmy Cannon, Red night. Clay, a 7-to-1 underdog, pulled off achieve racial equality. But Ali went on enthusiasm and especially your Smith and Arthur Daley, among others – one of the greatest upsets in the history to become an even more controversial fig- kindness quickly dispelled my fears. From Charles Grodin through were turned off by Clay’s motor-mouth of sports and became, at 22, the youngest ure when he aligned himself with the anti- Brian Williams it’s been a pretty bragging (“I am the greatest!”), his con- boxer ever to wear the heavyweight war protesters and famously proclaimed, good ride. stant preening (“Ain’t I pretty?”) and his crown. As Clay seized command of the “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet I laughed with Jules Feiffer, sang trash-talk (“Liston’s just a big ugly bear”). bout, Lipsyte revved himself up for the Cong.” Elaborating on that, he later along with Charles Osgood and When it came to African-American box- task of describing the epic achievement pointed out that “No Viet Cong ever called marveled at my good fortune to be in the same room with Frank Rich, Gail ers, their ideal was Joe Louis, the humble and explaining how it came to pass. Bob’s me nigger.” Collins, Tom Brokaw, Ruth Gruber, champ from an earlier era who was a story on the fight ran on the front page of Lipsyte heartily welcomed the oppor- Ken Auletta, Mimi Sheraton and Pete model of courtesy and always treated the the Times – above the fold – and you could tunity to cover a heavyweight champion Hamill. reporters with respect. Which is why he almost feel the glee seep through his lead, whose biggest fights were taking place not Now I pass the baton. And was hailed, in the popular phrase of that which set the tone for the entire piece: in the ring, but in the sphere of national borrow another salutation – this one from a philosopher, a Mr. G. Marx: time, as “a credit to his race.” But those “Incredibly, the loud-mouthed, bragging, politics. Even though he had opted to be “Hello, I Must Be Going.” days were long gone and now, in 1964, insulting youngster had been telling the drawn into his “accidental” career as a – Tony Guida when faced with an unappealing choice, truth all along...” sportswriter, the plain truth is that he still the veteran scribes preferred to hang out When Lipsyte returned to New York Continued on Page 6 PAGE 6 SILURIAN NEWS MAY 2012 2012 Culture, and about the exploitation of ath- Dennis Duggan Lipsyte Kihss Winner letes – especially minority athletes – by Spotlight: GMA Memorial Scholarship Continued from Page 5 the powerful rulers of the big-time sports Continued from Page 2 The Society of the didn’t care much for sports qua sports. empires. And he was light years ahead It’s not unusual to find me simultaneously Silurians is honored to In particular, Bob had no stomach for the of the pack in writing about the plight of dissecting copies of The Economist and announce the winner of the Dennis Duggan meat-and-potatoes of sports reporting, the gay athletes, who for years lived in fear Us Weekly. It’s all in a day’s work. If Memorial Prize, a schol- repetitive grind of covering games of one of being outed when such exposure would GMA’s more than 5 million viewers care arship of $1,000, stripe or another. “I rarely cared who have subjected them to the homophobic about something or someone, then we pro- awarded to a promis- won or lost,” he admitted. In a similar scorn that was then so deeply ingrained ducers need to care. Or at least care ing young student of Dennis Duggan journalism closest in spirit, he confessed that when he had to in the Jock Culture. This is just a small enough to keep them up-to-date on all the spirit to the humanity spend several hours in a press box, gaz- sampling of the kinds of subjects that en- Kims of the world (both Kardashian and and fire of the late veteran reporter, Dennis ing at players going through their overly- gaged Bob’s attention over the years, and Jong Un). Duggan. familiar moves on a baseball diamond or at his best, he brought to the coverage of So what’s the pay-off for the long hours This year’s prize goes to Jane Teeling, an exemplary student at the top of her class aca- gridiron or basketball court, “I felt I was them a moral passion that became his and information-juggling? Interesting as- demically, and selected with the unanimous de- wasting my life.” trademark. signments. And that’s where the fun part cision of the faculty of the CUNY Graduate To relieve the boredom, he kept look- * * * of my job comes in. On assignment for School of Journalism. ing for stories that lurked behind the ac- Nor was his work confined to jour- GMA, I’ve gotten to walk on the wings of Having worked abroad for several years in Bangkok, Thailand as an English teacher and tion on the field, and more than anything, nalism. While still on the boxing beat, Bob a U-2 spy plane, spend a day in the uber- travel writer, Jane is specializing in international he searched for ways to connect the “toy somehow found the time to indulge his secretive Opus Dei headquarters, interview reporting and plans to intern overseas this sum- department” (as sports journalism was earlier dream of writing fiction. Inspired Muppets ranging from Elmo to Big Bird, mer. often called in those days) to the grown- by a story he was told by a wily old fight and go “behind the scenes” with a phone Founding Dean of CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Silurian Stephen B. Shepard, assisted up world that existed outside the arenas manager, he wrote a young adult novel. sex operator. I’ve also gotten to bear wit- in this fine selection. and ball parks. In reporting on Muhammad He called it The Contender, and when it ness to all kinds of history. While covering Ali as he battled through the firestorms was published in 1967, the book was such the Democratic National Convention in of the sixties, Lipsyte found that link – a big success that it launched him on a 2004, I was there – alongside Charlie and made the most of it. parallel career. Lipsyte went on to write, Gibson – as a then-junior Senator Barack Yankee History Of course Ali didn’t neglect his day job over the next four decades, eleven more Obama was led to the stage to run through Continued from Page 5 (or in his case, night job), and neither did young adult novels, including three that the keynote address that would change his more difficult to get a Bat Day plug in Bob. An active champion, Ali defended were based on his own childhood miser- life – and our nation’s history. I still re- their stories when they wanted to know his title nine times during his first three ies as a fat kid. member how wide-eyed he was. who Billy Martin was beating up in strip years as the champ, and Lipsyte dutifully Nor was his journalism confined to In 2005, I was among the journalists sent clubs. Or, as was more often the case, covered those fights. But his main focus print. Midway through his career, Bob to wade through flood waters in New Or- vice versa. was on the larger picture. Thanks to the brought his skills into another medium – leans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. No one can write a history of the Yan- bond (of sorts) he had formed with Ali, television. In 1982, he became the regu- We holed up in a hotel where windows kees without the foundation laid by news- Bob was able to get exclusive interviews lar sports essayist on the CBS broadcast, had been blown out and where there was paper men over the years. To the Roths with the leader of the Black Muslims, Sunday Morning, and after four years no running water. At night, we took turns and the Grahams and the Drebingers and Elijah Muhammad – an extremely rare there, he moved on to a two-year stint at recounting the horrors we’d witnessed: their modern descendants, this writer – privilege for a white reporter – and with NBC. By the end of that decade, Lipsyte bodies floating down flooded streets, chil- and the reader – owes a tremendous debt. the sect’s chief public spokesman, the was hosting a nightly public affairs pro- dren left homeless in a city of looters. charismatic Malcolm X. Then later, when gram on Channel 13, for which he won GMA sent me to cover Ronald Reagan’s “Pinstripe Empire: The New York Ali became embroiled in the anti-war an Emmy. funeral in 2004. A who’s who of world lead- Yankees from Before the Babe to After movement, Bob covered that controversy That was just one of many honors he ers were on hand. I vividly recall being so the Boss” is Marty Appel’s 18th book. as it quickly escalated toward the fateful has received over the years. Among the impressed with Margaret Thatcher’s stun- His career with the Yankees in PR and day in April 1967 when the champion was other laurels were the Meyer Berger ner-of-a-hat that I almost failed to notice as Executive Producer on WPIX stripped of his title because he had defied Award for Distinguished Reporting, which whose arm she clutched as she exited the spanned 1968-92, and he continues to the law with his refusal to be drafted into was first bestowed on him in 1966 and church: Prince Charles. And while contribute to Yes Network, the army. More than any other star ath- which he then won again 30 years later. Reagan’s funeral was impressive, it paled Yankees.com, and Yankee publications. lete, Muhammad Ali reflected the racial And now Bob Lipsyte can add to his tro- in comparison to Pope John Paul II’s. I and political turmoil that defined the phy shelf the Society of the Silurians’ 2012 spent a week in Rome when the pontiff 1960s, and with the penetrating insight Peter Kihss Award. died and, like much of the world, was over- New Members he brought to his coverage of Ali’s piv- Finally, on a personal note, I should whelmed by the number of mourners who otal role in that raucous drama, Bob no doubt disclose that for the past dozen poured into St. Peter’s to pay their final Ralph Blumenthal Lipsyte was also in a class by himself. years or so, Bob and I have been close respects. New York Times [1964-2009]: Foreign Correspon- Among those who were impressed by friends, and that, I suppose, makes me On more than one occasion, GMA gave dent, [Germany, Vietnam, Cambodia], National me the plum assignment of covering the Bureau Chief, Metro Correspondent, Arts and Lipsyte’s work on the boxing beat were vulnerable to the charge of bias. But I Culture News Reporter, Investigative Crime his editors at the Times, and in the fall of hasten to add that he and I did not be- Academy Awards. Reporter, Journalism Professor, Baruch College 1967, shortly before he turned 30, he was come acquainted until the late 1990s, and Arguably the most fun I’ve had on as- signment came last spring when GMA sent Edwin Fancher given his own column. As a columnist, by then, I had been an avid and longtime Founder of the Village Voice, 1955, with Dan Wolf Bob had a lot more freedom to choose admirer of his work. In fact, it is one of me to London to cover the royal wedding. and Norman Mailer. With the Voice until 1977. his subjects and express his opinions. life’s rare joys to discover that someone Like virtually all women in my generation, I awoke 30 years ago in the middle of the Joseph P. Fried And guided by his still-developing sensi- you have long admired and esteemed, Reporter, New York Times, 1967-2008. Copy Boy, bility, he now pursued, more fervently from a distance, turns out to be, in close night to watch Lady Diana Spencer marry New York Times, 1960. Copy Boy, Daily Mirror, than ever, stories and issues that reso- contact, a warm and caring friend, as Prince Charles. And like most women 1959. nated beyond the narrow scope of main- well as one richly endowed with wit, of the western world, I went on to ob- sess over Princess Di’s every fashion-for- Mary Anne Gaetti stream sports coverage. charm and a generous spirit. And such Special Events Producer, ABC News, 1970-93. Through the years that followed, has been the case with Bob. In the years ward move. To be able to watch her el- Now produces, directs and writes videos for Lipsyte wrote about and I’ve known him, I can think of only one dest son marry amidst the pageantry that distribution to TV news outlets. is uniquely Britain’s was a dream come the feminist struggle she led to achieve serious flaw in his character, and that is Marcy Reed equality for women athletes, who long his inexplicable and unseemly disdain for true. Working with ABC’s crack London Freelance Contributor, New York Times/Westchester had been treated as second-class citi- the game of golf and for those of us who Bureau, I pieced together fanciful pieces Section since 1979. [Restaurant Reviews] zens. He wrote about the negative ef- play it – or play at it. Oh well. Nobody’s that our audience ate up: an interview with Princess Diana’s eccentric wedding Michael P. Stafford fects of what he derisively called Jock perfect. General Counsel, Law Firm of Farrell, Fritz, P.C/ Former gown designer; a visit to Kate Middleton’s United Press International Reporter and Editor longtime hairdresser; a look at Britain’s unique love affair with hats. The weather Mike Stein, and acquired the secretly recorded po- ABC-TV [40 years], Producer, Senior Writer,“World during the week of the wedding was sub- News Tonight.,” under Peter Jennings, News 2012 Awards lice cell phone conversations that attested lime. The wedding party was beyond Director, WNEW Radio. Now a member of the Continued from Page 4 to their involvement in the scandal. His beautiful (Who could forget Kate’s gown? Wildcat Jazz Band as its lead jazz trumpet player. events as shocked protesters tried to stream of stories woke up every police Or Pippa’s?!) And the joy of the British reassess, the tents, the tarps, gone. precinct in the city. Sixteen cops were people was infectious. ONLINE INVESTIGATIVE indicted. 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