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This was before the days of the flacks and handlers whose job it is to make athletes talk like robots. With owner George Steinbrenner fanning the flames, the Yankees butted heads in the ugliest, most public manner imaginable, then pulled it together to triumph over the hated Red Sox in...
In the '50s The New Yorker was the gracious home to John Cheever and S.J. Perelman and A.J. Liebling and Charles Addams, And though the magazine was supposed to be edited for a "little old lady in Dubuque," it was more typically the favorite reading and kindling material for a...
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster," the American journalist A.J. Liebling used to say, "and faster than anybody who can write better." In the film game, To is the embodiment of that maxim. He makes quality pictures in quantity. He drives himself hard and his staff...
To the people in Chicago who are intent on catching up with Kuala Lumpur I say, "Please, stop." I'm referring, of course, to the competition among cities to have the tallest building in the world. A few years ago the Malaysians erected twin towers that were 33 ft. higher...
Which is why, I told them, that Chicago should not trouble itself to get into a height fight or a passenger race with the likes of Kuala Lumpur or Atlanta. It is, after all, the City of Big Shoulders, the Second City. Somebody reminded me that if Liebling were writing...