What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.
Source: On figures profiled in Procession, 1965.
-- John Gunther, (Aug 30 1901-1970), US journalist; He became famous for his series of sociopolitical books describing Inside Europe, 1936; also wrote Death Be Not Proud, 1949.