A.J. Liebling was one of thos ... From: The Washington Post | Date: September 12, 2004| Author: A. J. Liebling | Copyright 2004 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

A.J. Liebling was one of those writers (others included E.B. White, James Thurber and Brendan Gill) whose sophistication, versatility, elegant prose style and fascination with virtually everything under the sun shaped the New Yorker magazine in its classic era. (Though the New Yorker is still a fine magazine, it can muster few such paragons now -- in much the same way that even the most glamorous of today's movie stars appear pale by comparison with their Golden Age forebears.) Just Enough Li...

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