Gabe Pressman Recalls His 'Overrated' Days
Setting "The Ten Most Overrated Men in New York" record straight.
We can’t really fault WNBC reporter Gabe Pressman’s 91-year-old memory for being a little hazy.
At the end of a wonderful profile by Wall Street Journal columnist Ralph Gardner Jr., Pressman states that when he and the others anointed by New York magazine in 1972 as “The Ten Most Overrated Men in New York” were invited to a party at the Towers of the Waldorf Astoria by then-U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. George H. Bush, also on the list, only one of the honored failed to show up – Senator Jacob Javits.
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