From POLITICO Playbook today: BRADLEE SWAGGER -- Jeff Himmelman, a Ben biographer who had access to his archive, in Vanity Fair in 2012: From the close of a letter to his friend Peter Wyden, ... in June 1973, right after The Post had won the Pulitzer: ... Where are you big? You understand, of course, that I am big everywhere. ... From Tom Lippman, Post reporter, at Bens retirement roast in the Post newsroom, July 31, 1991: One day I had a ... blushing visit from Debbie Regan, ... Bens secretary ... Ben had been dictating a letter on that little tape recorder, .... which Debbie had to transcribe, and she came over to my desk: Is dickhead one word or two? ... Mary Hadar, editor of the Style section, once presented a long profile to Ben right before he left for the night. When he came in the next morning, he told her that it was too long, and that she needed to cut it in half: Run it in two parts, he told her. Ben, you cant just take the story and cut it into two parts. It has arc. It has development. He said, Yes, you can. She said, How? And he took it, ripped it in half, and said, Like that. ... Whenever people around Ben are worried about something that he doesnt think is overly important, he will often say: ... When the history of the world is written, this will not be in it. ... Ben at Columbia Journalism School graduation, May 2007: ... The newspaper will be great if youre having a good time.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:00:01 +0000
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