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The toxic lure of fleet street.(Devine)

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| November 01, 2006 | Devine, Frank | COPYRIGHT 2006 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IF I HAD MADE IT in Fleet Street, I would have missed out on a ticker-tape parade down Broadway, in my own chauffeured limousine, with Dorothy Kilgallen, a nubile columnist from the New York Journal American sitting in my lap. That's something to think about.

A touch of Fleet Street special effects colours this introduction. I will now switch to straight-shooting American reporting.

The 1962 ticker-tape parade was not in honour of me but of the Mercury astronauts, especially John Glenn, who had just orbited the earth. The limousine had been assigned to Harry Howard, mayor of Perth, a city that had won American hearts (really and truly) by turning on its ...

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