Funny, but Correspondent William McWhirter was a little nervous about doing a series of extensive interviews with Humorist Erma Bombeck for this week's cover story. After 20 years with TIME, the past three as Caribbean bureau chief covering such subjects as Central American revolutions and the Miami cocaine epidemic, McWhirter at first approached the assignment more as a fringe benefit than a job. Then he began to worry whether he was quite ready for a warm, wisecracking columnist whose chief concerns are the household gods. Says he: "Some journalists are fond of saying that the nice guys are the toughest,...
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