NO MAGIC TOUCH(ING)

By BILL DWYRE

July 26, 1996 12 AM PT

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which is covering every aspect of these Olympics, went to the seedy side of town recently and published a story Thursday on how angry all the strip joint owners and dancers were that business was way below expectations.

Halfway through the story was this section, under a subhead that read: A VISIT FROM MAGIC. “It’s not as if there haven’t been Olympic highlights. Magic Johnson came into the club the other night. Everyone declared Johnson a ‘perfect gentleman,’ which translates as he was low key, didn’t drink too much, kept his hands to himself and spent scads of money.”

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Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre was a three-times-weekly sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2006-15. Before that, he was sports editor of the paper for 25 years. Dwyre was named national editor of the year by the National Press Foundation in 1985 for the paper’s coverage of the ’84 Olympics and winner of the Red Smith Award in 1996 by the Associated Press Sports Editors for sustained excellence in sports journalism. He was sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1973 to 1981, when he joined The Times. Dwyre was named National Headliner Award winner in 1985, sportswriter of the year in Wisconsin in 1980 and sportswriter of the year in California in 2009.

NO MAGIC TOUCH(ING)

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