"I wanted to write about the whole horse." "I told the editor I was tired of writing about politicians," he explained. I told him he was destined to be a novelist or short story writer, but lacking that, he should have stayed with his original beat at the paper, politics. I remember one night I was at dinner at his house out on Long Island with his children, his first wife Mary (my Urbana High School classmate) and Mike McGrady, the film critic of his newspaper, Newsday. It was a puzzle to me that he became a sports writer. Liebling Award, which isn't given just any old year. He has been honored with the most important awards by his colleagues among turf writers and boxing writers the latter gave him their A. He knows the names of all the horses and all the boxers and their important races and fights. Having such a memory is invaluable for him as a sports writer. Alfred Prufrock." We went together to hear Robert Frost read his poems in the University Auditorium, and he still does his impression of Frost being just a wee bit snarky about Carl Sandburg.
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