The Press: Reportage

George Dixon, fortyish, is a Canadian-born, curly-haired, chunky Washington correspondent for the New York Daily News whose gay, lemonish journalese is often the frosting to a cardboard cake. Any Dixon story is entertaining, but readers can never be quite sure what is true and what is plain flapdoodle. Last week Dixon ran a delightful story in the News:

". . . The Adams family of Massachusetts . . . owns a priceless draft of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson in his own hand. Recently Archibald MacLeish wrote, asking if he could borrow it for display in the Library of...

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