Occupation: Journalist Birth: November 20, 1908 Death: March 30, 2004
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decaden….
If computers take over, it will serve us right..
It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and aft….
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is the….
The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battlegr….
To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something abo….
Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated ….
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my du….
They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why..
It's an acting job - acting natural..
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible..
I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in n….
I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better..
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings..
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it..
All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: nam….
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions th….
Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped fro….
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - televisio….
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly tha….