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 v.— «Jiggs Bluster may have piped quotes and gilded scum in his time, but in the long run Jimmy Breslin offered this city a gift: he made it clear that the true experts on life are not officials and academics, but those who live it every day.» —“Damon Runyon” by Robert Lipsyte Columbia Journalism Review (New York City) Nov. 1, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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