"As newspapers only serve to excite the masses to subvert the present order of things and the editors concerned are composed of the dregs of the literary classes, no good can be served by the continuation of such dangerous instruments, and we hereby command the entire suppression and sealing up of all newspapers published within the Empire, while the editors connected with them arc to be arrested and punished with the utmost rigor of the law." The Empress Dowager of China, 1898 (From Pearl Buck's prize essay, written at Cornell in 1925: "China and the West." Unpublished.)
Author(s): A. J. Liebling
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Year: 1947
Language: English
Pages: 284
City: Garden City
1. Who Told Me?
The Big Question - 13
The Sapulpa Giant - 15
Professor Kills Santa Claus - 19
How to Learn Nothin - 25
See What I Mean? - 32
Max and the Corpse - 33
The World of Sport - 43
I Put Me on the Road - 53
The Kurdled Kurd - 64
The Indian Pathologist - 70
A Reprise - 78
Farewell to Providence - 80
Bread-and-Butter Note - 83
My Name in Big Letters - 84
Rehearsal for 1940 - 92
Dome into Ball - 97
Oklahoma on the Subway - 102
My Professional Career Ends - 106
2. The Wayward Press
The Wayward Press - 115
The AP Surrender - 119
Sherman Could Have Been Wrong - 130
No Papers - 134
Obits - 140
Mayor into Columnist - 147
Papers within Papers - 155 Mamie and Mr. O'Donnell Carry On - 167
And the Sun Stood Still - 175
For the Defense - 185
Antepenultimatum - 191
The Scribes of Destiny - 197
Two Pounds for a Dime - 207
Little Landslide - 214
The Great Gouamba - 223
Who Killed the Monkey? - 233
Mr. Capone and Other Primates - 243
Back to Before Van Buren - 253
3. What Are Chances?
What Are Chances? - 263
A Free Press? - 265
Reading List - 279
