Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.

Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.