Comments on: Clay Felker: 1925 – 2008 “Journalism Has Been My Life”

By: tip

tip — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:03:05 +0000

Thank you, friends, for your sharing your ideas

By: richard locicero

richard locicero — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:01:24 +0000

I mentioned Felker on the thread below honoring Ken Reich. A correction though it was, as Celeste points out, Harold HAYES, not Hughes (a former Iowa Senator – so we’re even on confusing solons with journos) who edited the great ESQUIREs of the sixties and seventies. I’d recommend going to the library and getting the Anthology “Smilin’ thru the Apocalypse” a collection of the best of that pub in the sixties – Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, John Sack, Gay Talese, and so much more.

And a word about the, still living, Jim Bellows, who gave felker his head at the Herald Tribune to start NEW YORK. Along with Morris at HARPERS and Shawn at THE NEW YORKER it must have been a great time to work in magazines in the Big Apple.

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:44:18 +0000

It’s a real stretch to connect Zell Miller to Sam Zell. How does your mind think? Also, Sen. Zell Miller at least represented Georgia rather than New York and California, as did Sen. Max Cleland.

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:41:03 +0000

AC,

With Joe’s soporific voice, ain’t no way he can top Zell in the crazy department.

By: AC

AC — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:37:31 +0000

Now Randy – you went and got me all nostalgic for Zell Miller. My only hope is that Joe Lieberman can bring on the crazy like good old Zell used to.

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:20:34 +0000

Thank HEAVEN you saw that truly scary blooper. Thanks, Randy. (Whew! fixed.)

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:11:12 +0000

The pedant in me wants to point out that you mean Sam Zell, not the wanker former Georgia senator who thinks he’s a cross between Foghorn Leghorn and Yosemite Sam.