A. J. Liebling
A. J. Liebling
Abbott Joseph "A. J." Lieblingwas an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 October 1904
CountryUnited States of America
wine insulting bottles
Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.
cities chicago bigs
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
girl crazy boxing
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
men media he-man
Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
writing way damn
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
eye men cities
A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
men lasts taste
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
fun taken enemy
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
long trying boots
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
games play new-orleans
Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.
sane
No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
american-journalist business
The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
evening man morning paper
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.