Anthony Irwin Kornheiser is an American television sports talk show host and former sportswriter and columnist. Kornheiser is best known for his endeavors in three forms of media: as a writer for The Washington Post from 1979 to 2008, as a co-host of ESPN's Emmy Award-winning sports debate show Pardon the Interruption since 2001, and as the host of The Tony Kornheiser Show, a radio show and podcast. Longtime ESPN executive John Walsh once declared that "in the history of sports media, [Kornheiser] is the most multitalented person ever."

Headlines from July 13, 1948

TEXAS UNIT FIGHTS BOLT FROM TRUMAN; Token Backing Pledged Laney With Limitation After He Says He Won't Back President TEXAS UNIT FIGHTS BOLT FROM TRUMAN

SAMPSON IS OUSTED AS TAMMANY CHIEF; ROGERS GETS POST; Manhattan Borough President Elected by 'Rebel' Group in Feud With O'Dwyer FIGHT SEEN ONLY BEGUN New Leader Calls for Harmony in Party but Mayor Refuses City Hall Cooperation SAMPSON OUSTED AS TAMMANY CHIEF IN CHANGES OF TAMMANY LEADERSHIP

TYDINGS ALSO OUT; Running-Mate Boom for Kentuckian Grows as Marylanders Quit OVATION FOR KEYNOTER High Command Favoring of Lane Had Brought Threat of a Fight on the Floor LANE OUT, BARKLEY LEADS FOR TICKET

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CITY GETS PIER PLAN TO COST $58,268,000; 10-Year Waterfront Program Is Part of Larger One Given to Mayor by Minetti CITY GETS PIER PLAN TO COST $58,268,000

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