"Sounds rather dated, but at the time it was a very sensitive subject," Nordlinger says.įor The Sun, Lukas reported in 1961 on a controversial welfare code in Newburgh, N.Y. "Filipinos Draw Housework Duty" read one headline. He covered racial tensions on the Eastern Shore, he wrote about integration of restaurants along Route 40, and he publicized the Naval Academy's "caste system of slavery" involving Filipino stewards and their living conditions on base. "He established the paper's urban renewal beat." He covered the whole transformation," says Nordlinger, 61, who retired from The Sun in 1991. Charles Center was just beginning to take root. "Tony became interested in urban renewal. Lukas wanted so much more than hanging around police precincts. restaurant for a late-night meal of oysters (75 cents a dozen) and an eclair. He and his new buddy and roommate, Steve Nordlinger, worked their 2 p.m.-11 p.m. He aced the paper's general knowledge test and went to work covering police for $105 a week. It is 1959, and a Harvard graduate (magna cum laude) had finished speech-writing for a Massachusetts governor and wanted a general assignment reporter's job at The Sun. That Lukas reportedly wasn't satisfied with his latest historical book, "Big Trouble," and that his method of death was strangulation are painful, curious matters for another time and place.
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