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Forget That New Orleans Is Actually A Little Like The Combat Zone With French Cooking, It Still Happens To Be Part Of The Great State Of Louisiana Where People Play The Political Game The Same Way It's Played In Lebanon. The Place Is One Layer After Another Of Tribes, Factions And At Least A Million Laughs.

The Only Way To Write Is Well And How You Do It Is Your Own Damn Business.

The Pattern Of A Newspaperman's Life Is Like The Plot Of 'black Beauty.' Sometimes He Finds A Kind Master Who Gives Him A Dry Stall And An Occasional Bran Mash In The Form Of A Christmas Bonus, Sometimes He Falls Into The Hands Of A Mean Owner Who Drives Him In Spite Of Spavins And Expects Him To Live On Potato Peelings.the Sunday World Was A Dry-stall Interlude In My Wanderings.

I Had An Attack Of The Gout Two Days Before Pulling Out, And I Went Limping Off To The War Instead Of Coming Limping Back From It.

Freedom Of The Press Belongs To The Man Who Owns One.