Column re Darrell Houston's Cooper novel, Seattle P-I, 3/27/75
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Original title: Emmett Watson column re Darrell Houston's Cooper novel, Seattle P-I, 3/27/75
Document date 27 March 1975
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-54:118-118 Document: Column re Darrell Houston's Cooper novel, Seattle P-I, 3/27/75 Id: Cooper-Part-54:118-118 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A118-118 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 p. 118 (DB Cooper-23044), News clipping, dated 27 Mar 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A118-118
The Cowering Inferno
DARRELL HOUSTON, former staffer on The P-I who now sits on the foreign desk for the LA Times, has polished off a novel about a Northwest folk hero, of sorts. Book's title? "The Ballad of D B. Skyjacker," which should tell you what it's about. Houston has done considerable research on the D. B. Cooper skyjacking caper, spent three years writing the book— which is up for grabs among several interested publishers. Let it not be said that Darrell doesn't believe in his subject: "I'm determined to get 'D.B. Skyjacker' into print and into the American consciousness — a consciousness that's starved for a hero of the proportions of D. B. Cooper." . . . Art Skolnik, the city conservator, is hard at work and let's say this for Art, he doesn't pick on any midgets. He's trying to keep Uncle Fed from signing any leases for parking, or overflow office space from the Federal Bldg. "Because," says Art, "once this happens, that's one more excuse to tear down more old buildings in the neighborhood. The federal government, even if it is sitting on top of the Burke Bldg., should be responsive to local policies." The Burke Bldg., as you know, was replaced by the big Federal Bldg.
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IN THESE days when restaurants open and close like traveling circuses, it's nice to note a celebration this month. It's the 30th anniversary of Taylor's Landing in Mukilteo, right next to the Whidbey ferry dock. The place is owned by Ed and Dick Taylor, the latter being a former State Rep. "In 30 years we've served everything from herring and hamburgers to lobster tails and wine," says "Big Dick," who stands 6-8. Entertainer Glen Larson will help the festivities along starting Monday in the lounge. Oh, yes, I forgot. Ed is the "little" brother — he's only 6-5 . . . . Al Rochester, the ex-councilman with a long memory, points out that Bing's brother, Larry Crosby, who died the other day, was a one-time advertising man here. Crosby worked out of the Botsford & Constantine offices in the Mariou Bldg.
IN THE phone book, it's listed in the grand manner — Washington St. Univ. Alumni Center West, and try to guess where that is. Actually, it's located in business consultant Al Heglund's office, which is pretty grand itself. That would be railroad magnate Jim Hill's palace car, at the Terry Ave. Freight House complex. An all-out Cougar booster, Heglund (his wife Helene is a WSU alum; their son, Mark, is a WSU senior) donated the office space several years ago, after complaining to WSU pres. Glenn Terrell about the alums' feeling remote over here. So the office, really, is a Pullman "hot line," a direct hookup that now fields some 50 calls a week, "everything from basketball scores and Mother's Weekend queries to real emergencies."
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Seattle P.I.
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164-81 Sub B SEARCHED ______ INDEXED ______ SERIALIZED ____ FILED __ A.I. MAR 27 1975 FBI—SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-23044
Serials: SE 164-81