[lbo-talk] Re: John Hess dies

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Fri Jan 21 13:57:14 PST 2005


Looked at his blog. Doug, thanks for the URL. He was sharp to the end. Several times I took a guest visiting NYC to Gennaro's (92nd and Amsterdam) on Tuesday around 6pm knowing that there was a 50-50 chance we could get to sit with John and Karen, and hear some of the best talk available anywhere - and the food there's good too. Among his many NYTimes stories ( a special subset was stupid things said by Flora Lewis) my fave was a rant about their hyperarrogant copyeditors, with the illustration that during '68 in Paris he rushed a story off to NY with some obvious abbreviations & read the next day that students had fought the police on Michigan Boulevard. I loved that old codger. He had all the right hates and loves.

john mage



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