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...education of Anthony Lewis had hardly begun. After working for Adlai Stevenson's campaign in 1952, he met an old-time Scripps Howard newspaperman, Lee Miller, who found Lewis a job with the now-defunct tabloid, the Washington Daily News...
Sokolov is guided by this principle in describing Liebling's beginnings as the son of an affluent New York City furrier, a student in Paris during the '20s, newspaperman, war correspondent and three-time husband, lastly to the late short-story writer Jean Stafford. Wayward Reporter tells more about the writer's work than about his life. Yet Sokolov, a New York journalist and restaurant critic, conveys the essential craftsman and gourmand who sopped up the life around him with the same melancholy hunger he displayed at lunch...
...about 200 pounds, Whitman's body was "rosy and soft, like a child's," and he liked "to keep a bowl of flowers by him." Kaplan illuminates the multifaceted personality of this husky and gentle man. The author depicts the 12-year-old apprentice printer in Brooklyn, the intinerant newspaperman, the Long Island country school teacher, and America's first urban poet, sharing many secrets along the way--including Whitman's taste for buckwheat cakes, beefsteak, ovsters, and strong coffee...
...years in New Buffalo, Mich. (pop. 2,700), out of Chicago, Newspaperman Robert Zonka says that the only new close friendship he has developed is with another couple from Chicago. Still, new migrants to small towns are likely to find, if only in the lowered risk of being stabbed in a subway, the different "quality of life" that most say they have sought...
...newspaperman and a TV reporter covered the Democrats...