Irv Kupcinet Professions : Columnist Born : July 31, 1912 Died : November 10, 2003 Browse All Authors Top 14 quotes by Irv Kupcinet An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. Irv Kupcinet turkeys thanksgiving optimistic Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray. Irv Kupcinet environment mother air A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs. Irv Kupcinet counting legs girl What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive? Irv Kupcinet god-is-dead society alive I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders. Irv Kupcinet misunderstood political cities What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? Irv Kupcinet dead you society god I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government. Irv Kupcinet me government football school My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years. Irv Kupcinet me work-ethic work father By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job. Irv Kupcinet job team time football Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career. Irv Kupcinet city better start journalism I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13. Irv Kupcinet ever anything never wanted My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me. Irv Kupcinet me high-school journalism school As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule. Irv Kupcinet vacation morning father school 'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday. Irv Kupcinet city game football long Similar Authors Bert Leston Taylor columnist Byron York columnist Brian Reynolds Myers columnist Antoinette Bosco columnist Arthur Bryant columnist Art Spander columnist All Authors
