[lbo-talk] Re: John Hess dies

[John Mage]

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