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[chicago] Is The Greatest And Most Typically American Of All Cities. New York Is Bigger And More Spectacular And Can Outmatch It In Other Superlatives, But It Is A "world" City, More European In Some Respects Than American.

The Last Copy Of The Chicago Daily News I Picked Up Had Three Crime Stories On Its Front Page. But By Comparison To The Gaudy Days, This Is Small-time Stuff. Chicago Is As Full Of Crooks As A Saw With Teeth, But The Era When They Ruled The City Is Gone Forever.

New York City, The Incomparable, The Brilliant Star City Of Cities, The Forty-ninth State, A Law Unto Itself, The Cyclopean Paradox, The Inferno With No-out-of Bounds, The Supreme Expression Of Both The Miseries And The Splendors Of Contemporary Civilization, The Macedonia Of The United States. It Meets The Most Severe Test That May Be Applied To Definition Of A Metropolis - It Stays Up All Night. But Also It Becomes A Small Town When It Rains.

What Interested Me Was Not News, But Appraisal. What I Sought Was To Grasp The Flavor Of A Man, His Texture, His Impact, What He Stood For, What He Believed In, What Made Him What He Was And What Color He Gave To The Fabric Of His Time.

The Camera Is One Of The Greatest Liars Of Our Time.