premise: More McFadden: "Naughton figured prominently in Timothy Crouse's book on the 1972 campaign press corps, 'The Boys on the Bus.' Mr. Crouse described him as soft-spoken and slightly built - ', <hypo>' - and ambitious, hoping to take over Russell Baker's humor column in The Times and displaying a knack 'for seeming to hold a casual conversation while really sucking out information like a bilge pump.'" http://nyti.ms/RMx0cs.
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "he would look like Naughton"