‘Thanks for the use of the hall’

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News Note: Columnist Jimmy Breslin died yesterday at 88. —30— 

Goodbye, ‘unlettered bum’

“Don’t call me a journalist; I hate the word. It’s pretentious.”

—Jimmy Breslin (1930-2017), NYC columnist, author, Pulitzer Prize-winner and “unlettered bum,” died Sunday at 88.

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
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Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
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• Editorial Comment: “Built like a Tammany ward heeler of a century ago, all belly and lopsided grin,” said People magazine in 1982. They don’t make ’em like Breslin anymore.

• NYTimes Obit
• WaPost Obit

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