journalist
who was closely associated with The New Yorker
from 1935 until his death.
Liebling was born into a well-off family in Manhattan
's Upper East Side, where his father worked in New York's fur industry. His mother, Anna Adelson Slone, was from San Francisco. After early schooling in New York, Liebling was admitted to Dartmouth College
in the fall of 1920.
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
The subject [of Stalin's death] permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation—both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents—and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.