Dogsbody c. 1930, referring to people who were stuck with rough work. The term dogsbody has not always been derogatory, with a number of people deliberately using it as their callsign or handle. The most famous of these is probably Douglas Bader, who was an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. Dogsbody A dogsbody, or less commonly dog robber in the Royal Navy, is a junior officer, or more generally someone who does drudge work. A rough American equivalent would be a "gofer," "grunt" or "lackey". The Royal Navy used dried peas and eggs boiled in a bag (pease
New York Ace and with Deanne Stillman started a new enterprise, the New York News Service, an alternative news agency. Jim Buckley characterized it as "an amalgam of writers bent on one goal—to wipe out the "Village Voice";" but in the end it was the "Voice" and its imitators that survived. Coming on the heels of the successive failures of the "New York Avatar", the "New York Free Press", "Rat", and the "EVO", the demise of "Ace" marked the effective end of the underground newspaper era in New York City. New York Ace New York Ace was an underground newspaper founded in New