Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
A. J. LieblingThere is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
A. J. LieblingHenry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.
A. J. LieblingThe country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.
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