Was A.J. Liebling a war correspondent?

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He was a correspondent in Europe during World War II, and then was (1945-63) the New Yorker 's press critic. Liebling's dispatches, columns, and musings on his many enthusiasms were collected in The Road Back to Paris (1944), on the war; The Wayward Pressman (1947) and The Press (1961); The Telephone Booth Indian (1942), on urban low lifes and eccentrics; The Sweet Science (1956), on boxing; and Between Meals (1962), on food. Among his most memorable articles was a series profiling Earl Long , which later appeared as The Earl of Louisiana (1961).

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