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REPORTER AT LARGE consisting of reminiscences brought on when the writer looks out of his office window to W. 43 St. He sees the Hotel Dixie where his …
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the sporting scene ·
THE SPORTING SCENE about the return match between Charles (Sonny) Liston & Floyd Patterson July 22, at Las Vegas. Last Sept., Liston won the heavyweight …
the sporting scene ·
THE SPORTING SCENE about the heavyweight championship fight in Chicago, between Floyd Patterson, (defending his title), & Charles (Sonny) Liston. Liston …
a reporter at large ·
A. J. Liebling writes about Muhammad Ali’s pugilistic poetry and his professional début in New York.
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the light-heavyweight boxing match between Archie Moore, a Negro and Giulio Rinaldi, from Rome, Italy, at Madison Square Garden, …
a reporter at large ·
Pierce Egan, the London prize ring expert, is quoted several times in this REPORTER AT LARGE about the Miami Beach championship fight between Johansson & …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the championship prizefight between Ingemar Johansson and Floyd Patterson. Author made up his mind simply to go to the Polo Ground …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Louisiana primary elections & the gubernatorial election, 1959. Mayor Morrison, of New Orleans, seemed to be Gov. Long's …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Governor Earl Long, of Louisians. The Governor told the following anecdote at the dinner table. "There was an important man once …
a reporter at large ·
A. J. Liebling writes about Governor Earl Long of Louisiana.
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the boxing match between Floyd Patterson, the champion and Ingemar Johansson of Sweden, for the world heavyweight championship. …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, his training, and his bout with British heavyweight Brian London, on May 1. Visit to …
onward and upward with the arts ·
From 1959: A. J. Liebling on French food and memorable meals with Yves Mirande, one of the last around-the-clock gastronomes.
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Philippeville, Algeria, in 1943, where the former Premier of France, & later Foreign Minister of the Cabinet of Albert …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about an enforced stay at Beirut, Lebanon, waiting for a visa to enter Jordan. Seats in the Lebanese Parliament are apportioned in each …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about travelling in the Middle East & about the difficulty of securing a visa to Jordan. Writer travelled by ship from Athens to Leganon …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about travelling around the Middle East The writer had been in Israel & now wanted to go to Lebanon. Arab countries don't want …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Francois Mauriac. In the early 1950's Mauriac was attracted by a younger political leader, Pierre Mendes-France, whom he …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about boxing matches at Shoreditch, London, and about the row kicked up in sports circles when it was announced in the papers that Terry …
letter from gaza ·
A. J. Liebling’s 1957 report from the Gaza strip.
a reporter at large ·
A. J. Liebling on a classic prizefight between Rocky Marciano and Archie Moore.
annals of crime ·
A. J. Liebling’s 1955 recount of the mysterious torso found floating in the East River, in 1897, and the race among the decade’s star reporters to crack the case.
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Billy Graham-Chico Vejar fight, at Syracuse. The Syracuse Nations had just defeated the Fort Wayne, Indiana Pistons, in the …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian reservation and about the land dispute betw. the Paiutes and the white squatters that had settled …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indians Reservation, Nevada. The first historian of the American Indian was Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, who …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTERS AT LARGE about Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Reservation, Nevada, & about Sen. Patrick A. McCarran's part in the land dispute between the …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Pyramid Lake & the Pyramid Lak Paiute Indian Reservation, which includes the 120,000- acre lake & a rim of land around it. The U.S.…
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about a prizefight betw. Ernie Roberts & Earl Dennis, at Sunnyside Gardens, & about a restaurant, Neutral Corner Cocktail Lounge & …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about wrestling. In the thirties, wrestling hit a peak of prosperity under Jack Curley. The world's championship was held by a …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about a prizefight between Archie Moore and Harold Johnson at Madison Square Garden. Moore's manager, Charley Johnston, told the …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the fight between Tommy Jackson and Nino Valdes at Madison Square Garden, which Valdes won in the first round. Gives background of …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Ezzard Charles-Rocky Marciano match. It seemed to author-and so it turned out, to both judges, the referee, and all the …
fiction ·
Writer tells about Constantin Rozanoff, a pilot in the French Armee de l'Air, who was known as Kostya. When the writer knew him in 1943, he was in …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about a stay at the Pyramid Lake Guest Ranch, Nev. Among the guests was an Italian journalist named Lamberti. He had come to America in …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about attending a pacing race in Delaware, Ohio, called "The Little Brown Jug." Thisis part of the Delaware County Fair, held yearly for …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the George Araujo-Jimmy Carter bout at the Garden. Araujo, is a mohagany lad, the son of one of those sailors from the Portuguese …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about return bout between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago. Marciano retained the heavyweight championship, knocking out …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Colonel John R. Stingo (James Macdonald), columnist of the N.Y. Enquirer. The Colonel, who refers to himself as the Honest Rainmaker, was amused…
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the prizefight at the Yankee Stadium between Sugar. Ray Robinson and Joey Maxim. Robinson, the middleweight champion weighed 157 …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the present prize-ring picture; the abandonment of the prize ring by Jewish and Irish boys; and about the disappearance of the …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Chicago recalls gangster murders, such as the massacre of 1929. There have been gang homicides in Chicago since the Massacre... On Sept. 25, …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Chicago. That city claims to be the center of coin-machine manufacture, including coin-operated gambling games; it accounts for 20% of the …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Chicago tells about an interview with Robert D. Stuart, Jr., son. of a vice-president of Quaker Oats, and-natl dir. of America First Committee, …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Joe Louis-Rocky Marciano fight Visit to Rocky's training camp at Greenwood Lake. An ancient featherweight champion, Abe …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE, about attending the Joe Louis-Lee Savold boxing match, at Madison Square Garden. A taxi-driver recalls the night Louis fought Carnera. …
profiles ·
PROFILE of General Omar Nelson Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Asked point-blank, this year, whether he thought MacArthur should have been …
profiles ·
PROFILE of General Omar Bradley. General Bradley was reminiscing about the North African campaign. In planning the campaign for the taking of a couple of …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE, about a cockfight held somewhere in Connecticut. The fight was staged in the cellar of a farmhouse and the main event of the evening was…
a reporter at large ·
Reporter at Large about a coon-dog field trial, in Southington, Conn. Mike Izzo, a grocer in New Haven, is the owner of Indiana Trigger, a dog that has a …
the wayward press ·
A. J. Liebling writes about the windup of the Alger Hiss trial in 1949.
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Arendal, homeport of Chr. Th. Boe, a tanker on which author sailed in the winte of 1942. Many of the crew members were …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Norway to look up some of the members of the crew of the Chr. Th. Boe, a tanker, on which Mr. Liebling was aboard when …
the wayward press ·
A. J. Liebling on the predictability of the 1948 Presidential Conventions and their press coverage (“much like reading a surefire play of which one already knows the plot”).
the wayward press ·
A. J. Liebling on the New York press’s coverage of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
profiles ·
Profile of William O'Rourke, a U.S. Diplomatic Courier, who during the car carried dispatches to and from Foreign service stations abroad. History of …
the talk of the town ·
From 1946: A. J. Liebling on Jean-Paul Sartre delivering a lecture about new tendencies in French theatre, his “precaution” to not learn spoken English, and his approval of New York “without qualification.”
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about war correspondents & public relations men & officers of the Eight Army in Africa. Colonel Baranoff, a Russian correspondent for …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Karl C. Warner, an American soldier, known to the NintyDivision as Molotov, Mollie, or the Mayor of Broadway. Mollie served in the 60th Infantry…
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about strange events that took place in the village of Comblanchien on the evening of Aug. 21, 1944. That evening, some German soldiers …
a reporter at large ·
Reporter at Large from Brittany. Letters found in an abandoned farm house used as division artillery headquarters command post. The letters were dated …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE. Recapitulation of D Day happenings. D Day-plus-one activities, that of unloading soldiers from a big troopship several miles off the …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about D Day invasion. Lieutenant Long said that he had seen the commander start off from the ship at a good clip, ran well until he got …
a reporter at large ·
A. J. Liebling’s 1944 report from the D Day landings.
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Anglo-American N. African campaign. Gafsa, called Capsa by the Numidians, is a very ancient town on a very slight hill in …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Major General Terry Allen. General Roosevelt is on more familiar terms with the enlisted men of the First Division than General Allen is, …
a reporter at large ·
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE from Tunisia. Speaks of the topographical resemblance between Tunisia and New Mexico; the handicrafts of the Arabs are similar to those …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to one of the U.S. air based in Tunisia. Conversation with tent-mates; a couple of boys from the South, They relate their …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Major Philip Cochran, of the U. S. Air Forces in Africa; a celebrity with several million young Americans who follow the syndicated cartoon …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Rolling Umpty-Seventh regiment The soldiers of the Rolling Umpty-seventh, a motor-truck regiment of the U. S. Army, are colored…
profiles ·
PROFILE OF Flying Fortress Dixie Demo, Jr.'s crew. First Lt. H. M. Locker, Jr, the Demo's co-pilot trained as s pursuit pilot before being …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. United States representative to Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Yugoslavia, Czecho-Slovakia, Luxembourg,…
profiles ·
PROFILE of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. United States representative to Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Yugoslavia, Czecho-Slovakia, Luxembourg,…
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about a Colonel of the Free French Air Forces. He tells about his escapades. The Colonel pretended to be mad when he was arrested in a …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about crossing the Atlantic in the tanker "Christian Th. Boe," during wartime.
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about crossing the Atlantic in the tanker "Christian Th. Boe," during wartime.
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Kensington-Upon-Hull, England's most heavily blitzed town. Description, visit to the office of the local newspaper …
profiles ·
Profile of Flight Lieutenant Brendan Finucane of the R.A.F.
profiles ·
PROFILE of Roy Wilson Howard, publisher of the World-Telegram.
profiles ·
Profile of Roy Wilson Howard. Howard and William W. Hawkins made their way up in the newspaper world with the United Press, which the elder Scripps …
profiles ·
PROFILE of the Jollity Building, on Broadway, and its tenants.
profiles ·
Profile of George Catlett Marshall, U.S. Army Chief of Staff.
a reporter at large ·
Postscript from Paris. Week by week account of happenings during the anxious days between the German invasion of the Low Countries and the fall of Paris.
a reporter at large ·
Visit to a pursuit planecache somewhere in France. There were no runways or hangars. In back of the house was an automobile trailer equipped as a radio …
profiles ·
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Christmas celebrations in the officers quarters in the Maginot Line, an old fort, built by the Germans, about five kilometres from …
profiles ·
Profile of Lee & J.J. Shubert. Just as Shubert empire has two chiefs, so it has two heirs apparent. One is Mr. J.J.'s son John, who, the father likes …
profiles ·
PROFILE of J. J. & Lee Shubert. "The Student Prince" is typical of the Shubert tradition. It made more money than any show the Shuberts produced. When, in …
profiles ·
PROFILE OF Lew Dufour and Joe Rogers Fair Midway concessionaires, but firm that now runs half a dozen shows on the World's Fair Midway. History of the …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about some of the wrestling exhibitions which take place at Ridgewood, L.I. Jack Pfefer conducts the matches, and makes no pretense at …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Goerge Nicholson, professional sparring partners Nicholson has helped Joe Louis prepare for four fights & the winter before last worked with Jim…
profiles ·
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It occupies historic ground as much of it is literally built on the bones of several thousand Revolutionary…
profiles ·
PROFILE of Hymie Katz, shoe-string night club impressario who at present runs a horse tipping service. Hymie reads out-of-town telephone books for the …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE. In 1933, Fritz Weinmann was of the opinion that the Hitler regime might be a good thing for Germany. While the government appeared to …
the talk of the town ·
In this Talk story from 1937, A. J. Leibling interviews a twenty-two-year-old who had created history with his productions of “Macbeth” and “Doctor Faustus” even before “Julius Caesar.”
profiles ·
PROFILE of Tim Mara, bookmaker & founder of the Turf and Gridiron Club. In 1925, Mara established the N. Y. Football Giants, the profiessional eleven which…
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about speakeasies during the probition era. Aldo's West of Eight Avenue, in the Forties, was a small place and run by a woman named …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Austustine J. Grenet, pricemaker, who furnishes information to bookmakers and big operators & also a racing news agency which distributes his …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Sidney Freeman, a kind of American trade name for a syndicate of British bookmakers who are in the business of buying up sweepstake tickets. A …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Morris Bimstein (Whitey) the best-known prize-fight second and trainer. Tells about his miracles of facial surgery between rounds, turning …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Otto Harbach. His musical comedies and a few straight farces have had more New York performances than those of any living playwright. Forty-nine…
profiles ·
Part 3 of St. Clair McKelway and A.J. Liebling’s Profile of Father Divine. Through his ministry in Harlem, Father Divine preached peace and equality—all while acquiring blocks of brownstones, two newspapers, restaurants, and a fleet of limousines.