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Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson.  1988.
 
 
NUMBER:8029
AUTHOR:Ben Hecht
QUOTATION:Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
ATTRIBUTION:On hard-drinking, cynical, exuberantly emotional breed of newspapermen described in his play The Front Page, written with Charles MacArthur, recalled on Hecht’s death 18 Apr 64
SUBJECTS:Communications & the Arts: Press: Reporters & Editors
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. Copyright © 1988 by James B. Simpson. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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