This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.
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New Yorkers, in general, love disaster. They love blizzards, power failures, etc. (I don't mean that they loved September 11.) A shared disaster brings them together more - ethnically, racially - because the disaster affects almost all of them, making no distinctions. Their manners are generally very good indeed. And their generosity can be without limits.
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The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements they long fondly for a good murder they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.
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