In case anyone wants to know the relative historical importance of showbiz celebrity Johnny
\nCarson and Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, a revered World War II hero of the Polish underground who
\ndevoted his life to the cause of an independent Poland, the size of their obituaries in this morning’s
\nNew York Times ought to make it clear: Carson was by far the more significant figure.
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Carson’s obit<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, beginning on the Nowak-Jezioranski got 357 Which, according to the Times’s ranking, makes Nowak-Jezioranski about twice as Nowak-Jezioranski’s “most famous achievement,” according to his obit, “was as the ‘Courier Not incidentally, for the first time in its history, the The greatest achievement of Woods’s career was to “accidentally” erase a key portion of a Carson’s achievements were so many, it would be tedious to list them all. But according to his The Washington Post was even less moderate about Carson. It ran a total of 5,030 words In case anyone wants to know the relative historical importance of showbiz celebrity Johnny Carson and Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, a revered World War II hero of the Polish underground who devoted his life to the cause of an independent Poland, the size of their obituaries in this morning’s New York Times ought to make it clear: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-g3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfront page, runs to 3,700 words (more than 10 times the length of Nowak-Jezioranski’s) and takes
\nup a full inside page. It is accompanied by a
\ninability to quit writing jokes even in retirement. Over all, the Times print edition devoted 4,916
\nwords and nine photos to his life and career.<\/P>
\n
\nwords<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, one photo and placement in the middle of an inside page, below the
\nobit of Rose Mary Woods<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, the
\nformer secretary to Richard Nixon, who got 690 words and a photo.<\/P>
\n
\nunimportant as Woods and 10 times less important than Carson.<\/P>
\n
\nfrom Warsaw,’ making death-defying trips to London from Warsaw to bring news of the Polish
\nresistance’s activities to the government in exile and the Allies.” Among other activities, he “took
\npart in the failed 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in which 150,000 civilians were killed” and later
\ncampaigned “for improved Polish-Jewish relations,” repeatedly calling “for Poland to apologize
\nfor the 1941 massacre of hundreds of Jews in a northern town, Jedwabne.”<\/P>
\n
\ntoday’s special session of the General Assembly commemorating the 60th anniversary of the
\nliberation of Auschwitz (in Poland) by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945.<\/P>
\n
\nsecret Oval Office audiotape that recorded a June 20, 1972, conversation between Nixon and his
\nWhite House chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, three days after the Watergate break-in. But Woods
\nwas modest about that accomplishment. She claimed she was responsible for “only about five
\nminutes” of the infamous 18-1\/2 minute gap in the tape, according to her obit.<\/P>
\n
\nobit, they included comedy sketches for “a variety of characters” such as “Art Fern, an
\nuntrustworthy salesman; Floyd R. Turbo, an opinionated bumpkin; Carnac the Magnificent, an
\nall-knowing seer; and Aunt Blabby, a gossipy old woman” [and] foils to which Mr. Carson
\nreturned time and time again … his doctor, Al Bendova; his accountants, H&R Goniff; and his
\nlawyer, Bombastic Bushkin.”<\/P>
\n
\nbetween his obit<\/B><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>
\nand an appreciation<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> by Tom Shales.
\nAs might have been expected, the D.C. daily considered Woods almost twice as important as the
\nTimes did, giving her 1,016 words<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. But as far as the
\nPost is concerned, both were less important than Nowak-Jezioranski, whose death was smartly
\nsingled out in an editorial<\/FONT><\/A><\/B>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"