BULLETIN — REMEMBERING JIMMY BRESLIN – N.Y. Daily News’ Jason Silverstein: “Jimmy Breslin — the cigar-chomping, hard-nosed newspaperman who won the Pulitzer Prize for his Daily News’ columns championing ordinary New Yorkers — died Sunday morning, according to friends and family members. He was 86. The cause of death was not immediately released. The curmudgeonly columnist and author — whose velvety and witty writing style uplifted the downtrodden and eviscerated the scoundrels — crafted copy for The News, Newsday, the New York Herald Tribune and New York Journal American. For more than 40 years, James Earl Breslin was the newspaper …read more
Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition
