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American journalist (1904–1963)

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Abbott Joseph "Joe" Liebling (born October 18, 1904, in New York City; died December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death. Best known as a press critic, Liebling wrote the magazine's "Wayward Press" feature from 1945 on.

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Alternative Names: AJ Liebling • A.J. Liebling • A.J Liebling • A J Liebling • Abbott Joseph Liebling

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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

As a result of its generous stand [Robert Maynard Hutchins’ controversial policy of admitting students after their second year of high-school], the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children’s Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins…playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.

Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The subject [of Stalin's death] permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation—both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents—and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.

A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.