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He spent $22 to get a sandwich man to parade in front of the New York World with a sign reading HIRE JOE LIEBLING, but the city editor always went in & out the back way, and never saw it. Eventually Liebling landed a job on the World anyway, just before...
Sandwich Man. As a war correspondent and writer for the New Yorker, Joe Liebling, a fat, friendly man who likes to listen while he works, proved himself one of the best U.S. reporters. Before that his career was often more down than up.
Dartmouth had kicked him out for cutting chapel too often. He later found that the Columbia School of Journalism "had all the intellectual status of a training school for future employees of the A. & P." The "colorless, odorless and tasteless" Times fired Liebling from its copydesk for identifying an unidentified...
Critic's Teeth. Liebling has decided prejudices of his own. "The Sun" he says, "is a suburban paper published "on the island of Manhattan . . . as perfectly preserved as the corpse of Lenin." Liebling's impression of Pundit Walter Lippmann: "Nowtherefore and whereas and ahem." PM's Max...
Liebling views with alarm the trend toward fewer newspapers and their control by "a group of wealthy individuals who share the same point of view." He thinks publishers have no right to be publishers simply because they inherited papers. Writes Liebling: "Try to imagine the future of medicine, law or...