"I wouldn't pay much attention to those stories about Ramparts' troubles you've heard those kind of rumors all the time about Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post," Ramparts Editor Warren Hinckle III quipped at a meeting of magazine editors in Manhattan last week. Later the 30-year-old editor, who manages to look at once rakish and boyish, appeared in a red shirt, Hush Puppies and a tattered eye patch,* to tell reporters in Ramparts' offices in the Fisherman's Wharf area of San Francisco: "The magazine is bankrupt; the phones are out; there's no booze in the closet; we're dead."
Indeed, the...
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