Quotes by Andrew H. Malcolm

A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.

A driver is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.

Calling O'Hare an airport is like calling the Queen Elizabeth II a boat.

Every day all day, every night all night, cars, planes, trucks, trains, motorcycles and even pedestrians flow through that sprawling intersection like blood coursing through the arteries of the heartland, of which Chicago still reigns as the square-shouldered capital.

Farmers now are members of a capital-intensive industry that values good bookwork more than backwork. So several times a year almost every farmer must seek operating credit from the college fellow in the white shirt and tie-in effect, asking financial permission to work hard on his own land.

Ruthton looked like any of a thousand Midwestern towns, an aging collection of small homes on straight streets, all arranged around a two-block downtown where the brightest light after 9 PM is the Coca-Cola machine down by the Standard Oil station.

The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle here where the broad prairies that are the world's most fertile collection of farm fields meet the vast Great Lakes that are the world's largest collection of fresh water.

The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.