Some famous but shy writers have the Times of their lives
If all goes according to plan, print-starved New Yorkers will wake one morning this week to find that yet another daily has apparently joined Rupert Murdoch's Post in reaching a separate peace with the city's striking press unions. The 24-page paper, selling for a rather extortionate newsstand price of $1 (the result of a costlier-than-expected union settlement, the paper explains in a frontpage notice), looks just like the Times, only more so.
The Page One lead story by Timesman R.W. Papple Jr. recounts the...