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According to Arthur J. Langguth, Jr. ’55, who was president of The Crimson when Halberstam was managing editor, Halberstam was as hard-nosed as anyone else on staff, and was not afraid to step on some toes, even as a young reporter...
...David and I used to have a competition to see who had offended more people with The Crimson in the past week,” Langguth says...
...made the life of the others almost easy because he was so hard-working,” adds Langguth. “He just dug in. He was at the editors’ desk every night...
...Crimson that went on to be journalists when there was a sort of change. Tony Lukas, who was a close friend, whose death was really very tragic, was on the board with me; Dick Ullman, who’s a professor at the Woodrow Wilson School; and Jack Langguth, who was later a foreign correspondent for the New York Times as well and has written a very good book on Vietnam, was the president. Dick Burgheim later ended up with Time and People. We had a wonderful time, we had a great...
...best Saki is matchless, a storyteller, as Langguth justly puts it, with "flawless sentences on almost every page that could have been the work of no other English writer." That is why even the stories with surprise endings, like The Open Window, can be read again and again. "The humor came less from his jokes than from the . . . absolute rightness to his language." It is like watching a champion diver do a perfect half gainer. You know how it comes out, but seeing it done is still astonishing...