tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10101398039981017772024-03-13T06:16:26.878-07:00Sabbatical ScratchingA few words now and then from an old gray j-profold gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-81222699608304433402015-11-22T00:00:00.000-08:002015-11-22T00:00:06.551-08:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">November 22, 1963, began as a routine, even dull, news day for the United Press International broadcast news desk in Chicago.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">Our newscasts were reporting the latest in an ongoing Soviet-American clash over policing of the Berlin autobahn. Roman Catholic bishops at Vatican II had approved the use of vernacular languages in the Mass. Some Koreans had been killed by a U.S. Army rocket explosion while gathering scrap metal on a firing range. The Navy was searching for a U2 reconnaissance plan that had crashed in the Gulf of Mexico after a flight over Cuba.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">We were also reporting on President Kennedy's trip to Texas to act as peacemaker in the feud between factions of the state Democratic party. Tied to that, on some of our newscasts, was the report that former Vice President Nixon, in Dallas for a speaking engagement, had predicted that President Kennedy would replace Lyndon Johnson on the Democratic ticket in 1964. It was hardly world-shaking material, but it clacked out on UPI Teletypes, as our reports did every day, around the clock, to the company's 3,500 client radio and television stations across the country.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">When I arrived at work on that morning, John Pelletreau, the national broadcast news editor, assigned me to the first of the department's two editors' desks. He supervised the day shift and normally took the first desk, but he would be a writer that day, he said. He had some administrative work to catch up on and could do that better between writing assignments than as an editor. John put Bill Roberts on the second desk.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">As first desker, as the first desk editor was called, I would be in charge of the shift. I'd prepare 15-minute World News Roundups, which we filed, or transmitted, every fourth hour. I would read all the other copy to be filed on the broadcast wire and make whatever final edits were necessary to insure the copy was accurate and readable before handing it to a Teletype operator. Roberts, on the second desk, would edit five-minute World in Brief newscasts and monitor a bank of Teletypes that brought news to our desk from New York and London. We had two writers to whom we assigned stories to be put into brief and direct broadcast style. That day, they were Pelletreau and Phil O'Connor, a relatively new member of the staff.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">Between 11:50 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., I filed the usual sports and stock and commodity market news, the hourly headlines and the Fourth World News Roundup. At 12:30, Henry Renwald, the Teletype operator, flipped switches that split the broadcast wire circuit to allow UPI bureaus around the country to send packages of local news and features to stations in their geographical areas. We in Chicago would take control again at 10 minutes before the hour.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">At the split, Renwald stayed at his keyboard to type a feature story on punch tape that could be fed into the Teletype's tape reader later for automatic transmission. Pelletreau went to an office along one side of the newsroom. I got up to go lunch but, on the way, stopped at O’Connor’s desk to explain why I had edited a story he'd written as I had. I was talking to him when dinging bells on the main news Teletype alerted us that a bulletin was coming in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">Most of the stories on the wire were routine, but stories editors deemed more consequential could take precedence and were coded so as to trigger alarm bells on the Teletypes. Five bells signaled a "bulletin," major breaking news or an important new development in an ongoing story. A five-bell "urgent" was a story that was important but not as hot as a bulletin. The top priority story, preceded by ten bells, was a "Flash," given to only the most cataclysmic events. Flashes were so rare the edition of the "Broadcast Style Book" that we used then made no mention of them. Subsequent editions would.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">The five bells chimed at 12:34. Roberts turned to the machine behind him and tore off the bulletin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">"Hey. Look at this," he said.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;"> The bulletin read:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">“Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">As O'Connor recalled it years later, he heard me "shouting 'Jesus Christ!' after Roberts read aloud the first bulletin that came across. Larry practically flew across the room to get to the printer."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">I told Renwald to take back control of the broadcast wire. He did, but it was difficult. All the bureaus were sending. Worse, New York tried to send the bulletin from Dallas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">"GET OFF GET OFF GET OFF," Renwald typed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">I edited the Dallas copy to put it in active-voice broadcast style: "An unknown sniper fired three shots at President Kennedy's motorcade in Dallas." Renwald began typing but got only as far as "President." The word disappeared in a garble.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">Even as Renwald was battling the bureaus, the A-wire Teletype sounded 10 bells.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">KENNEDY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED PERHAPS SERIOUSLY PERHAPS FATALLY BY ASSASSINS BULLET.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">I took a pencil to that and gave it to Renwald and told him to send it as a flash. He had one false start before getting it out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Perpetua, 'Vladimir Script', ABIGAIL; font-size: 16px;">FLASH</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">KENNEEY</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">KENNEDY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED---</span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">Five minutes had gone by and other bureaus were still trying to send, breaking up our transmission. Renwald tried to get them to stop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Perpetua, 'Vladimir Script', ABIGAIL; font-size: 16px;">STAY OFF ALL OF YOU STAY OFF AND KEEP OFF GET OFF</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">There was still more interference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Perpetua, 'Vladimir Script', ABIGAIL; font-size: 16px;">WILL U PLEASE STAY OFF THIS WIRE TILL WE GIVE THE GA????</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Perpetua, 'Vladimir Script', ABIGAIL; font-size: 16px;">STAY OFF STAY OFF</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">When the A-wire bells sounded the flash, Frank Spencer, the Chicago bureau chief, looked at the A-wire Teletype at his end of the newsroom. He was a bulldog of a fellow with a powerful voice, and he yelled "FLASH" so that it carried through the room. It was a hair-raising shout, and I could feel gooseflesh breaking out. Conversation stopped. Someone turned on the television set at the far end of the room.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">By then Pelletreau was back in the newsroom and he made instant decisions. Roberts and I would stay on the desk. John would write the main story. We sent O’Connor out for sandwiches and coffee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">Bulletin followed bulletin on the A-wire, and we kept pace, getting the story out to the broadcast clients. One of those was CBS, and within seconds after the first bulletin, Walter Cronkite, in shirtsleeves, appeared on the television screen paraphrasing what we had just sent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">In Dallas, White House reporter Merriman Smith, who had been in the press car behind the President’s limousine, sprinted from the parking lot into the hospital. When he passed Secret Serviceman Clint Hill, he asked how the President was. "He's dead," Hill said. Smith included the quote as a paragraph in his running story that was coming out of the A-wire machine. The question was, should we go with it? My inclination was to put it out as a bulletin. I showed it to Pelletreau. More seasoned and more thoughtful, he ordered caution and set it aside on the desk. His reasoning was that Hill could not have made that final determination, and that if it were broadcast by our clients and found to be false, we would have panicked listeners unnecessarily. It occurred to me some years later that he may also have been thinking of the ill consequences to UPI's reputation of sending a flash that wasn't true. He knew wire service history better than I. We held Hill's quote for at least 15 minutes, then sent it out buried in a write-through of the story. We delayed reporting flatly that he had died until the official announcement came.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">Operator Alice<strong> </strong>Guenther took over at the broadcast Teletype keyboard at 1:30. Four minutes later word was flashed from Dallas that Kennedy was dead. I had copy for a flash ready on the desk, but John waved it away. "Alice," he said, "type 'Flash President Dead.'" Alice took her hands from the keyboard, covered her face, bent over, and cried "Oh, my God." An operator supervisor, Jimmy Darr,<strong> </strong>suddenly appeared behind her, and in what seemed to me to be one fluid motion, put his hands on her upper arms, lifted her out of the chair, sat her on the floor and leaned over the chair and her and typed the flash.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">While that was going on, I typed a bulletin and a follow-up paragraph.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Perpetua, 'Vladimir Script', ABIGAIL; font-size: 16px;">(DALLAS)--PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEAD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">HE WAS SHOT TO DEATH BY AN ASSASSIN IN THE STREETS OF DALLAS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">HE WAS 45.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">Alice recovered and was back at the keyboard to send that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">We didn't have a prepared obituary for Kennedy in the file, as we should have; who would have thought we would have needed one? As a result, we didn't have his age handy, and I was guessing that he was 45. I was wrong by a year, and John repeated the error in the sub, or write-through. But soon as the A-wire came out with the correct age, we sent a correction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">Dean Miller, the broadcast news manager, had been at lunch at a nearby saloon, the St. Louis Brown's Fan Club. He did not let the news interrupt his meal. He finished and walked back to the newsroom. He asked a few questions of John and disappeared into his office. He made periodic appearances later to read the file of stories we had sent out. On one of his trips, he read the correction and gave me a tongue-lashing for making the mistake. Then he retreated to his office again. That was the only comment Miller made about how we handled the story.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">Tom McGann, UPR bureau chief and the third in UPR's chain of command, was on vacation. He came downtown from his home on the north side of the city as soon as he heard the news. We still had the stack of stories from earlier in the morning on the desk. He tossed them into a box under the desk where discards went. "You won't need these," he told me. That was the only work he did. He asked Miller if he could help, and Miller told him to go home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">We scrapped the usual format of sending a Roundup or a World in Brief each hour. We also cut out the splits. This was a national story, and nothing local could possibly take precedence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">In Dallas, Merriman Smith was doing a masterful job of reporting from Parkland Hospital. He questioned Secret Service agents about what they had heard; asked Malcolm Kilduff, the assistant press secretary traveling with the president, about the president's condition; buttonholed a presidential staff member to find out Mrs. Kennedy's condition. He reported that a carton of blood had been rushed to the emergency room. He told of a woman who, in the midst of all the confusion, brought in a bloody child for treatment. He reported that Kennedy had been given the last rites of the Catholic Church.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">In Chicago, Roberts and I were writing many of those details as two and three sentence items, and I was putting the stories on the wire as urgents. Pelletreau was folding the new material into write-throughs. As soon as he had a new one ready, I filed it as a bulletin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">As usual, we carried the prices of the stock and commodity markets, but even those had an assassination angle: "News of the shooting of President Kennedy prompted active selling of grain futures and prices took a dive on the Chicago Board of Trade. The death of the President wasn't announced until after the close." About the only news that was not related to the assassination were three short sports items we filed shortly after 1 p.m. as "Late Sports Briefs."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">At 2:52, we sent the third flash of the day:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Perpetua, 'Vladimir Script', ABIGAIL; font-size: 16px;">DALLAS---JOHNSON PRESIDENT.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">I wrote another bulletin fleshing out the flash and followed that with more details about the swearing in aboard Air Force One. Pelletreau did another write-through, writing it as he had written nearly all of the other complete stories. He was fast, and his copy was error-free and graceful--somewhat surprising in light of what he told me later. He could hardly concentrate, he said. "All I could think about were those poor kids. I kept saying Hail Marys the whole time I was writing." At 3, the wire started to return to normal. We carried a national weather forecast, and then I wrote the opening summary for the Fifth World News Roundup:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Perpetua, 'Vladimir Script', ABIGAIL; font-size: 16px;">PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEAD...STRUCK DOWN BY AN ASSASSIN'S BULLET AS HE RODE IN A MOTORCADE THROUGH</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"> LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON IS THE 36TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...SWORN INTO OFFICE ABOARD THE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">AIRLINER THAT HAD FLOWN MR. KENNEDY TO DALLAS THIS MORNING.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">(DALLAS)---POLICE </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">TODAY SEIZED LEE H. OSWALD, IDENTIFIED AS CHAIRMAN OF A "FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">COMMITTEE," AS THE PRIME SUSPECT IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">The last of the fifth Roundup cleared the wire about half an hour later, at 4:21 p.m. When it was timed off--when the operator typed the time and his initials--my work for the day was done.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">A year later, in the fall of 1964, I was in graduate school at Southern Illinois University, and I met the owner of the radio station in Anna, Illinois, just a few miles south of Carbondale. He was a UPI client, and when the bells went off on the broadcast wire Teletype on November 22, he told me, he put an extension cord on a microphone and went into the closet-like enclosure where he kept his Teletype machine and read each word as it was typed out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">Until that moment I hadn't thought about the people we reached with our reports. And I couldn't venture a guess, even, as to how many other radio stations operated as the Anna station did, or how many people got their first news of that terrible event from us. But it occurred to me that afternoon that millions of Americans, driving or shopping, working in offices or doing chores around the house, heard those words we wrote that afternoon as they were delivered in all the accents of small-town American radio, from the clipped sentences of Maine and Vermont, to the the drawls of Alabama and Mississippi:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">"President Kennedy is dead. He was shot to death by an assassin in the streets of Dallas."</span><br />
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old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-32940697345323906892014-05-27T08:03:00.000-07:002014-06-17T10:49:00.294-07:00Memorial Day and other holidays<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: right;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">“Why?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">Having served my time in the Army, I’m accustomed to obeying my commanding officer, usually without
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">“It’s Friday,” I said when I came in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">“What’s Friday?” she asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">“Memorial Day?” I said. That’s May 30th.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">“It’s been changed,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">I fired up the computer, typed “Memorial Day
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changed the date to the last Monday in May. In 1971. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Why </span><span style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">hadn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> I noticed that? Married only nine months,
was I still in the goofy delirium of the honeymoon? Why </span><span style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">didn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> I catch on to the change in some
subsequent year? Maybe because I was a
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Day’s a holiday with me.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But it’s not just Memorial Day that's been re-dated, I learned. Our
hard-working Congressmen and women have praised famous men by ignoring their
birthdays to give this great nation of ours four richly deserved three-day
holidays each year. </span><span style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">We've</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> been celebrating Martin Luther King’s birthday in
January, though not necessarily on the 15th. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are paired
on the same Monday in February, but on neither one’s birthday, necessarily, and
Christopher Columbus we honor in October, but not always on the 9th, his
birthday, as we once did for celebrating his discovery of this land. Ignored, however, is the Italian explorer Amerigo
Vespucci, for whom this land is named. Celebrating his birthday, April 9,
would give all of us another three-day holiday, the third month in a row. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Not content with those changes, our patriotic lawmakers up and renamed
Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of World War I (at the 11th hour of
the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918), to Veterans’ Day, though they kept it
on November 11. As a veteran, I don’t mind being honored or remembered or
whatever is supposed to be done for us veterans on that day, but </span><span style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">couldn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> the holiday makers find a day other than Armistice Day to do it? I suggest April
24, the anniversary of my discharge from the Regular Army. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">To their credit, the legislators </span><span style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">didn't</span><span style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"> mess with Independence Day, the 4</span><sup style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"> of July.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">And, if I remember correctly—cut an aging gent some slack
here—Labor Day has been the first Monday in September since it was instituted more
than a century ago—a sop thrown to working men while Pullman, Rockefeller,
Carnegie and other plutocrats were working them to early deaths at subsistence
wages and reclaiming that pittance at the company stores.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Back
to Memorial Day. It was instituted after the Civil War by General John Logan to
honor the dead of the Union forces. Then we went and got ourselves involved in all kinds of
adventures around the world, most of them we </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">shouldn't</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> have been in: the war
with Spain in Cuba and the Philippines, the First World War, Vietnam, Cambodia,
Laos, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan (I’d except WW II and Korea from the list). We
piled the bodies high and included in our memorializing all of the young
Americans killed in those wars. Congress even got around to including the
Confederate dead, though the 13 states of the Confederacy still have separate
days to honor them. But north and south, we now put out the flags on the last
Monday of May. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">So
ours is out front today, gently waving in the breeze. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;">But I’m going to put it
out again on Friday,</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;">May 30</span><sup style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;">th</sup><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">I'm designating that Cantankerous Old
Man’s Memorial Day.<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
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old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-36968745601165082022013-07-08T09:57:00.001-07:002013-07-11T07:18:12.756-07:00Popo throws a curve<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Mexico's Popocatapetl volcano erupted last week, I was taken back 16 years, to the summer of 1997.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Popo, as the Mexicans call it, had been stirring that summer, too, </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">blowing smoke and water into the</span></span> air, </span></span>just as my six-week stint of teaching in Loyola's summer program at the Universidad Iberoamericana was ending. </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I wasn't concerned enough to change my flight plans, though, and early on the morning of my departure, I took a cab to the airport as if everything were normal. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was standing in line to check bags and get my seat assignment for the 7:30 flight to Houston when a voice over the loudspeaker reported that flights, which apparently had been grounded, would resume, though they would be delayed because only one of the two runways was in use. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I puzzled over the report; I hadn't read the morning newspaper yet, and I did not know flights had been grounded. It was only after I had checked in and settled in at the coffee shop that I read that the volcano had erupted the evening before, and the ash had blown north and west and settled onto some sections of the city, the airport included.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I wanted to see Popo breathing smoke. The volcano is only about 40 miles to the southeast of Mexico City, and I had seen it often, when it was in repose, on my earlier trips in and out of the city. But the cloud of smog over the valley that morning hung so far down that I couldn't see the cone, and even when we were in the air it was hidden.</span></span></div>
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old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-46094380849257235582013-03-11T10:36:00.000-07:002013-07-08T12:19:20.350-07:00An Accidental Meeting<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I ran into a Loyola student last week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Literally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was about 11 a.m. on Wednesday. I was making a right turn from one multi-lane avenue into another and the student, in the lane to my left, turned right in a slightly wider arc at about the same time. The left front corner of my car creased the front and rear doors on his passenger side as he sped past me. My bumper and left fender suffered some damage, and both had splotches of paint rubbed from his car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After we had parked and shaken our heads at the damages, he told me that he had been speeding to get to school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Loyola or Tulane,” I asked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Loyola.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What’s your major?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Music industry studies, but I’m also taking courses in music business.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I retired from Loyola a couple of years ago,” I volunteered. “I taught in mass comm.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I gave him my name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh, yeah, geez. Now I know you,” he said, “You lectured on public speaking to my business communication class. You were awesome.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That calmed the storm that had roiled my innards.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And seeing as how we had established our bond, he said, “I’m really sorry.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forgiven. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I asked his name. “Timothy,” he said. (Why does no one under the age of 30 seem to have a last name?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both, we discovered are insured by State Farm. And while he called the company, I dialed 911. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Afterwards we looked at the damages again. “I know a guy who can pop that right out,” he said, looking at the long crease along his doors. Mine would have to go into a shop, certainly, but I didn’t know of a reputable one. And the shop would probably keep the car for a week, probably more. I swore under my breath. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I heard Timothy say, "This is my first accident." I silently swore again. Lucky me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At least the weather was pleasant, and we took to the curb and made small talk. He told me about his dream to go on to law school and become an entertainment attorney. He also wants to buy a hat when he becomes an attorney and wear it to his office downtown as other attorneys do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Hats are coming back, I think,” he said. “I see lots of men wearing them. When did they go out of fashion?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I said that President Kennedy didn’t like to wear hats, and that set a style for younger men. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What about that president before him?” he asked. I forget his name.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Eisenhower. He wore hats, like most men of his time.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“A hat will keep me from getting dandruff from the sun beating down on my head, too,” he said, and he bent his head and parted a swatch of thick, black hair. He did not have dandruff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We talked about all the potholes that pockmark New Orleans’ streets, the broken streetlights, the city’s broken infrastructure generally, its underclass and their housing, the failure of office holders to improve conditions. And so we killed little more than an hour, and during that time no squad cars drove past the intersection in any direction. We remarked on that, too, because the intersection is near a relatively high crime area, and it is rare not to see one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did see a small car make the same illegal turn. It had the State Farm logo and an agent's name painted on the door.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Nearly an hour and a half had gone by when a parade of some five or six squad cars drove past us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Must be heading from the donut shop to lunch,” I quipped. Timothy laughed. Another point for him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the drivers ignored my waving—all but the last, and I think he must have been the officer who had been sent to the scene after my call.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We gave him our licenses and registration and insurance cards. He handed us forms on which to describe the circumstances. That’s an improvement, I thought. Some years back, when one of my daughters was involved in an accident, the officer listened to the versions she and the other driver gave him and wrote the report. It would have received a D for spelling, grammar and composition from a sixth grade teacher. A generous sixth grade teacher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Timothy and I gave the officer our completed forms, and he told me they matched in the important particulars. He gave Timothy a ticket for “improper lane usage” and handed back our credentials. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was close to one o’clock. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Timothy and I shook hands. Neither of us said it had been nice to see the other again. Then he drove off to campus and, I can only suppose, to explain his absence to his professor. I drove home to explain my tardiness to the missus. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-64536965348462751452013-03-03T12:54:00.002-08:002013-03-11T10:33:40.390-07:00Elderly? Not quite.<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong> elderly</strong> </span>Use this word carefully and sparingly.<br /> It is appropriate in generic phrases that do not </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">refer to specific individuals: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">concern for the </span></span>elderly, </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">a home for the elderly, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> If the intent is to show that an individual‘s </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">physical or mental capabilities </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">have deteriorated </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">as a direct result of age, cite a graphic example </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">and give attribution for it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Apply the same principle to terms such as </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">senior citizens. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <em>--The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most mornings at the breakfast table, the newspaper spread out in front of me, I come on references to someone about my age as “elderly” or even “old.” “Damn kid reporters,” I mutter. “They probably see anyone over 30 as ‘I mean, you know, like, ancient’” And they have not read the “AP Stylebook,” as they should have. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have no objection to “senior citizen” as long as I’m getting the discount. I do object to “elderly” and “old,” however, and not just on journalistic grounds. It’s personal. (My use of it in the blog's standing matter is just funnin', as we say down South.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know I have some gray hair. Well, maybe most of what I have is gray. Regardless, I notice when I comb it that it is thinning (but who wants fat hair, I might wisecrack to my grandsons to watch their eyes roll). And when, with razor in hand, I look in the mirror every morning, I recognize the face right away. It is the same face I’ve been looking at since I began shaving, though it is somewhat wrinkled now and sags a bit in spots. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Otherwise I’m not aware of any major changes. In fact, I weigh the same as I did when I got out of the Army half a century ago, though I’ll concede that the weight is redistributed somewhat and, perhaps, a bit flabby When I change my shirt I notice—well, I’d rather not mention those. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, yeah. One leg has become a touch gimpy. Putting on my shorts and trousers in the mornings has become a balancing act. And I’ve long since stopped practicing my Chevalier “Stairway to Paradise” routine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve experienced a few other changes, too. Once upon a time I had a doctor. One. Now he’s my “primary care physician,” and in recent years I’ve added enough specialists to seat around a poker table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The eye doctor, whom I used to visit only when the golden arches logo on McDonald’s billboards got a little blurry, not long ago took away my spectacles—I’d worn glasses since I was eight or nine years old—removed cataract-clouded lenses from both of my eyes, and inserted machine-made lenses in their place. But while I can see him and his “E” clearly now, he still has me in for regular visits. “You aren’t getting any younger, you know,” he reminded me the last time. I still have glasses for close reading—five or six pairs in various places somewhere around the house. Give me a minute and I can find one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve acquired a cardiologist who is young enough to have two pre-school children. She observed that I have some sort of leakage in my heart. “But don’t worry,” she told me. “A lot of older people have that.” She told me she wanted to make sure that I didn’t have any fluid buildup. She prescribed a pill for me to take every morning that keeps me draining fluid all day, and often. She warned me not to take to the pill before going to bed. It would keep me going to the bathroom all night, she said. As if that would be a change in my routine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There’s the GI doc, too, though I see him rarely now. When I was a young fellow of 58, he peered down into my esophagus fairly frequently for two or three months to see how a cancer that had developed there was responding to treatments by my chemotherapy and radiation docs. A few years later, he peered up into my colon—finding nothing, I’m happy to say. In my slightly drugged state during that exam, I thought I could hear him humming “I’ve looked at love from both sides now.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Getting rid of the remains of the cancer, by the way, took a general surgeon and a thoracic surgeon. I didn’t meet the latter until he walked into the prep room to introduce himself just before the operation. Frankly, I was concerned, because he looked to me to be too young to be wearing scrubs. A Boy Scout uniform, yes. But he and the surgeon successfully took me apart, cut out what they were looking for, and put me back together. Is there a merit badge for surgery?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most recently I acquired an audiologist. For a year or two—maybe more; I forget exactly—I endured the missus yelling “Get a hearing aid!” every time I asked “What?” in response to something she had said. So I finally had my ears tested and, after, bought a pair of hearing aids. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How much were they?” she asked, when I came home wearing them. I told her--and it was her turn: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“WHAT?” she exclaimed, and I thought, but did not say—being only aging, not crazy—that if she had always spoken to me with that volume, I would not have needed the hearing aids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, one recent evening I walked into the den while the missus was watching a college basketball game. I looked at the screen just as the scene switched from the court to the commentators’ booth. In the center was a much-lined, almost wizened, face I thought I knew. I will concede that I have a problem remembering names occasionally (the only folks I know immediately are the ubiquitous “whatsisname” and “whatsername”) and it took me a minute to slowly run through the alphabet testing names until I got to “N.”</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Knight!” I exclaimed. “Bobby Knight!” Of course. For many years he was the successful and controversial Indiana University basketball coach. Who could forget him?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I moved closer to the tv set and squinted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“My gawd, he’s gotten old!” I said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The missus said nothing. I looked at her. She stared at me with an odd and curious cat-that-swallowed-the canary expression on her face that pretty well told me what she thought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went up to my workroom and sat at the computer.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Bobby Knight. He can’t be much older than I am, I thought. “Five or six years? Maybe seven?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I typed his name into the Google search box on the screen and clicked to a biography. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Born: October 25, 1940. “</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three and a half years younger than I. I was astounded. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“My gawd!” I whispered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could see in my mind’s eye that look that the missus had given me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since then, I have admitted to myself that I am somewhat worn, no longer quite the same fellow who worked at the peach-fuzz on his face with a Gillette blue blade safety razor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But elderly? I don’t think so, no matter what those twenty-something reporters say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Edging up on it, possibly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But old? Hell, no.</span><br />
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George McGovern's death this week<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1010139803998101777"> </a>brought to mind an unlikely incident from
election night in 1972, one that would tell me that I might be getting through
to at least some students. At the same time, it would offer me a teaching opportunity
that I missed that night but made good use of in the future.</div>
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I was an
assistant professor in the Marquette University College of Journalism in those
days, and I moonlighted as a reporter and news announcer for WISN. Too junior
to teach summer school courses, I had jumped at the chance to be a summer
replacement at the station when the news director, Don Froehlich, offered me
the opportunity a year or so earlier. That turned into weekend work, as well,
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On election
night in 1972, Don gave me the keys to the news department car and sent me downtown
to report on the doings at the election night headquarters of the Democrats and
their presidential candidate, George McGovern. McGovern had long trailed in the
polls and was given no chance of winning, but how low he had sunk I did not know
until then. Headquarters was in the Wisconsin Hotel, on Third Street, just
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for statewide office and for the presidency, or their representatives, normally
had suites in upscale hotels like the Schroeder Hotel, on the corner of Wisconsin
Avenue and Fifth Street and the elegant old Pfister, on the East Side at
Wisconsin and Jefferson Street. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
supporters ate and drank and danced to live orchestras in the ballrooms. It was
my observation (“Lorenz’s Law, I was bold enough to call it) that those
candidates destined to win took up election night residence in the Pfister, and
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I had never
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to be about half a star above those establishments that rented rooms by the
hour. Sailors going through boot camp at the Naval Station Great Lakes stayed there
when on liberty in Milwaukee. But that’s where the McGovern operatives had
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century reporter Henry Grady, who was in Tallahassee to report on the award of
the state’s disputed electoral votes in 1876. Before the decision was released,
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buckboard and driver and they drove until he found a telegraph office with
communication to the outside world. They returned to Tallahassee. When the
decision was handed down—Hayes would get the votes—Grady jumped into the
buckboard, and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>while the driver lashed
his horses to get full speed out of them, Grady sat alongside writing his
story. When they reached the telegraph office, his story was not quite ready,
so he gave the telegrapher a speller to send, thereby establishing his claim on
the line until he finished the story. (There was a side lesson there, of
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course, I told my students stories about Merriman Smith, the Pulitzer
Prize-winning White House correspondent for United Press and its successor,
United Press International. In April, 1945, he was at President Franklin
Roosevelt’s Little White House at Warm Springs, Ga., when reporters were called
to the President’s cabin. Smith spotted a telephone next to a chair when he
entered the living room, and sensing something important was up—an end to the
war in Europe or, possibly, an announcement about the president’s health—he hid
the telephone behind the chair. When the press secretary announced FDR’s death,
the other reporters ran out to find telephones. Smith waited until they were
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the story of Smith’s work on the day President Kennedy was assassinated. He was
riding the front seat of the wire service car in the presidential motorcade in Dallas and just happened to be talking on the car’s radiotelephone
to someone in UPI’s Dallas bureau when he heard
shots fired. He dictated the first bulletin, that three shots had been fired at
the motorcade, and gave what other details he could as the cars sped to
Parkland hospital. Jack Bell, the Associated Press correspondent, was
sitting in the back seat, and began to beat on Smith and
demand his turn with the phone. He raised welts on Smith's back, but the UPI man would not let go. When the press car
wheeled into the hospital’s emergency room entrance, Smith tossed the phone at Bell,
jumped out of the car and sprinted past the president’s limousine. He saw Mrs.
Kennedy’s roses lying in the president’s blood in the back seat and asked
Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who was standing near the car, the president’s
condition. “He’s dead,” Hill said. Smith sprinted into the hospital, found a
telephone at a nurse’s station and began dictating those details. Smith scored
a clear beat for UPI that day, partly out of luck, I said, but also because he knew
that it wasn't enough to get the story, it was crucial to get it out and
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sitting by those telephones had taken to heart the lesson of those stories, and I was proud of them. Years later, however, I also regularly taught a mass
communication ethics course, and I used them as an example of going over the
line in controlling communications. Grady using a speller to “own” the
telegraph line was one thing; their putting a bogus “Out of Order" sign on a
telephone was another. And my comment to those ethics students was that while I
would have given those two fellows an A for mastering the history lesson, had I
had them in ethics, I would have had to give them an F. </div>
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old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-45447772746908573502012-10-15T13:57:00.000-07:002012-10-25T10:07:25.236-07:00The Kansas City Milkman<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Marc Murdock, a longtime teacher at Kansas City’s Jesuit high school, Rockhurst, died recently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I never had Marc Murdock for a class. How I missed chemistry or, especially, algebra with him I do not know. His obit states that he “scared the quadratic equation into hundreds, even thousands, of young men.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But given my abilities in math, I doubt that even he could have scared the material into me, and my academic life might well have ended in his classroom.<br /><br />But because I was on the staffs of Rockhurst’s monthly news magazine, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prep News</i>, and the yearbook, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Chancellor, </i>however, I did have frequent association with him. He took most of the photographs for both publications, and he was moderator of the yearbook. He was a very nice fellow, and I liked him and got along well with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">At least until one morning during Christmas vacation of my senior year. Yearbook staff members were supposed to be at school that day to work on the book. But as dedicated to journalism as I was, I was crazy in love with the enchanting Helen Mary D'Arcy, and vacation time was better spent with her, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">at her house, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">my teen-age reasoning went, than with a bunch of other guys in that dank basement room at Rockhurst that was allotted to the yearbook (I still think so).<br /><br />At some point there was a knock on the back door.<br /><br />"Milkman." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />When I opened it, I came face to face with the milkman from Country Club Dairy: Marc Murdock. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A 25-year-old high school teacher with a family that would grow to 12 children, he delivered milk during vacation periods, and the families of a good number of his students were on his varied routes. On that day, he was delivering in the Indian Hills area of suburban Johnson County.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Mr. Murdock was not happy to see me, nor I him.<br /><br />"Aren't you supposed to be at the school?" he asked. I said I was, or maybe I just nodded sheepishly. He handed me the milk and whatever else he was delivering and left.<br /><br />Mr. Murdock never said word after that about my being A.W.O.L., and I continued to work on the yearbook up to the time we sent it to the printer. My picture appeared in the staff photos in the book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">At the honors assembly in the spring, however, when staff members were called to the front, one by one, and awarded golden lapel pins for their work, my name was not called.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />So while I never had Mr. Murdock as a teacher, he taught me a good lesson—one <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that Woody Allen put in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>words years later, and one that I passed on to my students occasionally:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> "Eighty percent of success is showing up."</span><a href="http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/2114" title="Eighty percent of success is showing up."><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">A footnote. Ten years later, when I was working for United Press International, I picked up a novel about journalists with a foreign bureau of a fictional news agency. It was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Kansas City Milkman</i>, written by a former United Press foreign correspondent. It took its title from an admonition to a rookie correspondent from the fictional bureau chief, though it was supposedly once spoken by a real-life UP editor: "And remember, you are writing so it can be understood by the Kansas City Milkman. If the Kansas City Milkman can't understand it, the dispatch is badly written." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still have that book, and I've occasionally thought of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my vacation-day encounter with Mr. Murdock, that vacation-time Kansas City milkman, when I have glanced over and seen <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it on the shelf.<br /><br />And a footnote to that. If you have seen the movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Broadcast News</i>, you will remember that there is a flashback in which William Hurt's anchorman character is shown as a boy with his father—a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kansas City milkman.<br /><br />R.I.P. Mr. Murdock.</span></div>
old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-25020539394854474242012-09-04T17:07:00.003-07:002012-09-05T13:54:05.372-07:00A Week Away From IsaacHere in New Orleans today, things are “literally back to normal,” as the mayor told us citizens at one of his gang bang news conferences the other day.<br />
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One week after our battering and soaking by Hurricane Isaac, we had sunshine outside and, inside, electric power. Fewer than 17,000 of Entergy's nearly 200,000 home and business customers were still without power earlier in the day, but we were told that Entergy crews were on the streets and up in their gondolas repairing lines downed by falling trees or tree limbs or simply high winds. The executive suite crew were summoned to appear before the City Council to explain why the repairs have taken so long. <br />
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In our neighborhood, a venerable pecan tree was uprooted by the wind, and much of it toppled into a neighbor’s yard. The ground had been saturated in this summer of heavy rains, and in other areas I passed in my travels after the storm other perfectly healthy trees had been uprooted from the soggy soil by Isaac's Category 1 winds. Around the corner, the upper trunk of an oak tree was diseased in the center (it became obvious), and in the wind, the healthy portion could not hold, broke off and took a power line into the street with it<br />
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We lost power at our house at about 10 p.m. last Tuesday; it was restored at about 10 Saturday night. Fortunately, a next-door neighbor with a large generator invited us to plug an extension cord into one of its outlets, and I alternated hooking up our refrigerator and a small freezer we have in the shed in back. That saved most of the food. For light, we had a couple of candles and three small LED flashlights. <br />
The missus bought a battery-powered lantern at Loew’s, but she neglected to buy the eight D batteries that would power it. Surely, she thought, we had D batteries at the house. Yeah, two or three. But they, I found, were two or three more than any store in our area that I visited had in stock. By happy accident, returning home empty –handed after an hour or more of battery hunting, I spotted a hand-lettered sign at an intersection along the streetcar tracks telling me that my favorite small hardware store, just down Oak Street, had D batteries. How was that possible when Radio Shack, Home Depot, Loew’s, Walgreen’s and other big stores had none? I made a hard left across the tracks (the streetcars are safe in the car barn these days) and pulled up in front of the store. I bought an Energizer 8-pack, and took it home,in triumph. If only I had had an ear of the bunny to nail to the wall.<br />
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Our cell phones ran low, and I had not thought ahead to getting a battery-operated power source for them. My daughter‘s house in the suburb of Jefferson, about five miles upriver, never lost power , while all around them, other houses were black. To get the phones juiced, I drove there through mostly empty streets , plugged in the phones, had a beer with my son-in-law, talked about the storm with him and watched my grandsons play video games.<br />
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With power out, news was hard to come by. We missed two days of the <em>Times-Picayune</em>. On Thursday, a plastic bag thrown on the lawn held the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday editions. The Wednesday edition had been printed in Mobile and was on that narrow, shorter newsprint that a number of papers have gone to, including The World’s Greatest Newspaper. The staff had done a fine job of pulling the story together, and their stories made of interesting reading even two days late. But readers were reminded that we could have read the news online on Nola.com: “I would have liked to,” my unsent diatribe to the new publisher began, "but I had no electricity and my Internet service provider was down.” <br />
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The NY Times covered the reporters covering the story: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/business/media/hurricane-isaac-coverage-online-hints-at-times-picayunes-future.html?_r=1&smid=fb-share">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/business/media/hurricane-isaac-coverage-online-hints-at-times-picayunes-future.html?_r=1&smid=fb-share</a><br />
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If great online journalism is done and no one can get online to read it, is it still journalism?<br />
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At my house, we turned on a multi-frequency portable radio I bought for some weather emergency years ago. The staccato voice on the weather frequency repeated the latest forecasts and warnings over and over. WWL-AM (the big 870) spilled onto most all the frequencies. Callers mostly complained about the slow response of emergency powerline repair crews. The talk show hosts pontificated, whether informed or not, and called out “next caller.”<br />
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The best call of the week, I judged, was from a fellow who said he did not go into Bourbon St. strip joints for the usual reasons—whatever those are; he did not say. But he liked to stop in one fairly often just to relax. And in that one, he said, he saw lots of linemen drinking beer and ogling the dancers. <br />
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The talk frequently gave way to the gang bang news conferences the mayor, area parish presidents and the governor like to perform to demonstrate that they are on top of the situation. They faced the cameras surrounded by department heads who stepped to the mike on cue to tell us they had everything under control. Hunker down, they told us, and take comfort in knowing that the National Guard has boots on the ground and Entergy is on the way.<br />
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The only tv signal was carried on the fm frequency of the local NPR affiliate. I had no problem listening to stories from reporters and anchors. But making sense of the weather was a chore, specially when I kept hearing that we were not out of the woods yet. Put on a blindfold some evening and try understanding a station’s weathercaster describe what you are not seeing on his map.<br />
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My favorite weatherman won’t have much to complain about tonight—only the heat, I suppose.<br />
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I certainly can’t complain about our situation. Like almost all others protected by the levee system we suffered only minor damage to the house. But hurricanes always leave behind people who have to rebuild their homes and, many, their lives. We are being shown their plight now in the wake of the storm. Give a thought to them occasionally, and, if you are so inclined, say a prayer for them. <br />
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<br />old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-61643135344447236282012-07-26T11:18:00.002-07:002012-07-26T11:22:36.063-07:00A Tale of Two MotorcadesPresident Obama and I waved to each other on a recent afternoon.<br />
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We weren’t exactly on equal terms. He was looking through the tinted protective-glass window of his limousine as it sped by at some 40 to 50 miles an hour along Claiborne Avenue, a main thoroughfare into downtownNew Orleans that intersects our street, Burdette. I was standing on the curb squinting at the shadow waving at me from behind the window.<br />
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I had an inkling he might be on the way when I looked out my front window about 4 o’clock and saw the neighbors in the corner house on their front stoop, other neighbors scattered along the curb and a policeman who had parked his car against a barricade the end of our street. I had put three and one together: the crowd, an Air Force helicopter that had been circling for half an hour or more, and a report earlier that for a day or so police barriers had been stacked up at nearby intersection, plus a story in the morning blat that Obama was to open the annual meeting of the Urban League that evening with a speech, led me to the conclusion that the president could be passing at any moment. I went outside.<br />
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A squad of police motorcycles went by. The next door neighbor said an earlier group had sounded like a roll of thunder when it passed. Then came more cycles, some black limos, and then the president’s. I walked to the curb and waved, he waved, and the limo disappeared around the bend to the right, heading just six blocks away, to a home on Audubon Boulevard where some people who would be excluded from his planned tax cut were gathered to hear him ask for for campaign donations (Did he use that age-old plea for Mardi Gras favors, “Throw me somethin’, mister”?). <br />
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When the motorcade was going through—and before, I’m sure, none but official cars and motorcycles were allowed on the three lanes of Claiborne going southeast, into downtown. Outward bound traffic in the lanes on the other side of the median, was at a standstill. Within 15 or 20 minutes after the motorcade had passed, the drivers going home were able to pick up speed. But no cars were in the near lanes. <br />
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On Burdette, drivers trying to get across the median or turn right were backed up behind the barrier and a few drivers got out only to be told by the policeman that they could not get past. Why the police had not put a barrier at the other end of the street, at Neron Place, I do not know. If they had, drivers would have been able to get to an outlet open to them. But the police and the men who dig up the streets to repair sewer pipes and gas lines never seem to think that far ahead. <br />
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A half hour or more after the motorcade had passed, the officer moved the barrier to the median strip and began motioning cars through. It had been almost an hour since I waved Godspeed to the president. Perhaps Mr. Obama would have made his pitch and left for a less exclusive fundraiser at the House of Blues, in the French Quarter.<br />
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Almost immediately after the barrier disappeared,, some few drivers made it across Claiborne or turned right. But a flood of cars that must have been dammed somewhere back along Claiborne, perhaps behind Carrollton Avenue, a major street three blocks away, were let loose and soon clogged all three lanes. And in keeping with one of the customs of this city that prides itself on Southern hospitality, when they stopped, they blocked the crossing so that no cars could get out of Burdette. <br />
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In hardly any time, traffic was moving normally. Rush hour was over, and only a few cars were speeding in each direction. <br />
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The thought occurred that the president, on his return to the airport after his speech to the Urban League, would travel on the Interstate when few cars would be heading west.<br />
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Behind him, those Urban League members (who, the next morning’s newspaper reported, received him ecstatically) would have a happy memory to tell and retell for the rest of their days. Some rush hour drivers on Claiborne would have resentments that they might take out at the polls, though Louisiana will go Republican anyway. Others of those drivers would simply forget the inconvenience.<br />
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Me? I have his wave captured in my mind’s eye. <br />
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The episode reminded me of the last time I saw a president in a motorcade. <br />
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It was June 23, 1969. <br />
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I was in Washington that day. I had served two weeks of Army Reserve duty at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, in early June, and afterwards I spent a week or so in the capital doing research at the Library of Congress. <br />
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On the 23rd, Warren Burger was to be sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren, The Washington Post had reported that morning, so I walked the few blocks along First Street N.E. from the Library to the Supreme Court to gawk at the invited guests as they arrived. It was a gorgeous June day, warm and sunny. <br />
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A number of individuals went up the long flight of marble stairs to the building, but none I recognized. Then a black limousine pulled up, a liveried driver got out and opened the rear door on the passenger’s side, unfurled a large black umbrella and held it over the door as a chunky man exited. It was FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The chauffeur held the umbrella over him and the two walked slowly up the steps. <br />
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Sometime during my wait, while the ceremony was going on inside, I had heard that President Nixon was there, but that his limo had entered the building’s garage on the Second Street N.E. side. I walked around back and stood on the sidewalk near the garage exit to try to catch a glimpse of him. <br />
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I was rewarded by seeing the president’s car come out of the garage and make a right turn in front of me. It moved only slightly while the motorcade came together, so for a few moments I found myself face to face with Richard Nixon. He smiled and held up a hand in a regal gesture. <br />
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I looked like the sort of young man the president would like. I was 32, clean-shaven, my military haircut still close-cropped, and I was neatly dressed—I might even have had a jacket and tie on for my work at the Library of Congress. I was not at all like those unwashed, bearded, and long-haired Vietnam-war protestors in filthy clothes that Nixon despised.<br />
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He appeared startled, then, when I stared back at him, unsmiling, and held up my hand, forefinger and middle finger in a “V,” and pushed the gesture toward his face. His smile disappeared, but he kept looking at me, as in disbelief, and then the motorcade started and he was gone.<br />
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A Secret Service agent had been standing just to my left and, I’m sure, had had his eye on me. When the motorcade started, he did a right face in front of me and stepped hard on my foot. <br />
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<br />old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-89293432724972606362012-05-29T15:45:00.001-07:002013-02-10T14:51:46.910-08:00Harry Truman levels with me<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Near the end of my stay, I asked to meet Mr. Truman, and on my last day there I was given a brief audience, though I was cautioned that I could use nothing from our talk in my thesis. At precisely the time of my appointment, Mr. Truman appeared in the doorway between his office and the sitting room next to it looking just like, well, Harry Truman, in double-breasted suit and thick glasses, and he greeted me with a big give-me-your-vote smile and strong handshake.<br /><br />Mr. Truman motioned for me to take a seat on the couch and sat down next to me. We chatted a bit about his views of the press conference, though I can’t recall that anything I might have used came out of the conversation. In my reading of the press conference transcripts, I had come across instances in which Mr. Truman misspoke in answering a question and after<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reporters had played those up in their stories, he sometimes had sharp words for them. Reporters also sometimes tried to push him to respond in a way that he didn’t want to respond or read more into his responses than he intended or flat out misconstrued what he had said. In those instances, the president chastised the reporters. He occasionally took their bosses to task for what he saw as the publishers' biases against him and his administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> I had hoped to get his reaction to all that, to take something substantive away from the interview, but I was disappointed. When I sensed that my time was nearly up, however, I asked, "Mr. Truman, do you think the press abused you when you were president?" He leaned over, looked me in the eye, and in his clipped “Mizzurah” twang he said, "No. They can't abuse the President of the United States." Then he punched my left leg just above the knee with his right forefinger a time or two, his eyes narrowed, and he said, "But there were a helluva lot of 'em who would have if they could have."<br /><br />Off the record though the interview was, I confess that I could not resist using that statement in my thesis. But I softened (or hid, if you like) the lapse by including it not in the text, but in a footnote, and when I sent a copy to the library, as required by the grant agreement, the only criticism that Philip C. Brooks, the director of the library, had was that I had misspelled the name of one of Mr. Truman's advisers, Harry Vaughan, as "Vaughn." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">*During Truman’s presidency, most reporters at the press conferences were “press.” Almost without exception they were correspondents for newspapers or the wire services that provided news to newspapers, though some radio reporters were part of the White House press corps. It has only been in more recent years, with the explosion of reporters for television that the abominable term “media conference" has come about. If I had my way, the term would be "news conference" to put the emphasis on the news and not the news gatherers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“Truman and the Press Conference,” <i>Journalism Quarterly</i>, 43:4 (Winter, 1966), 671-79; 708. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“Truman and the Broadcaster,” <i>Journal of Broadcasting</i>, 13:1 (Winter, 1968-69), 17-22.</span></div>
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(Lord knows, it isn’t the pension) is getting a hint, now and then, that in
ways large and small one has had some influence on some students. That
occurred to me recently in exchanges with two former students whom I taught on
two campuses and nearly four decades apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">One came from a fellow who, as a sophomore at
Marquette some 40 years ago, had taken my beginning newswriting class. Kevin
was given one of the university’s major alumni awards this spring for his
superb work as a p.r. man over his career for Marquette and for two NFL teams,
and I wrote to congratulate him. In his reply, he reminded me of an episode at
the beginning of the course. I had given the students their first in-class
writing assignment, a story based on notes I handed out. My purpose was to get
an idea of the level of writing skill each student was bringing to the class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I began writing my story with a pen,” he wrote,
“until you stepped up to me and asked: ‘What are you doing?’ When I explained
that I couldn’t type, you replied, ‘You’re going to have to start learning right
now.’” He added, “Lesson started and learned.” And he said he had often told
that story over the years.</span></div>
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might have recalled was my reaction to an assignment later in the semester.. After I had gone over in class the elements and
structure of the speech story, I gave the students a copy of a speech and told
them to write a story about it as homework. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At the beginning of the next class, as I picked up
the stories, his caught my eye. He had handed me simply a copy of the
speech--neatly typed and letter perfect, by the way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Why had he turned in a copy of the copy I had given
him, I asked. Kevin said that he thought that was the best way to faithfully
convey what the speaker had said. That was hard to argue with, but I managed to
convince him that a well-written story could get a speaker’s major points and
the flavor of the speech across to readers and in an economical way that was
best-suited to the limited space of a newspaper. He learned that lesson, too,
and he turned out to be an excellent writer.</span><br />
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Kevin, a Loyola graduate of more recent years who, as a freshman, had been a
student in my introductory writing course. I always thumped Will Strunk and
E.B. White’s slim <i>The Elements of Style </i>like a preacher at a revival in
that course and used some of<i> </i>White’s essays as examples of excellent
writing—among them, the poignant “Once More to the Lake,” which I could never
discuss with a class lest they see their professor in tears. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kevin told me that he had moved to New York
City earlier in the year and one of the first things he had done was to buy a
copy of White's "<i>Here Is New York</i>.” He said he wanted to tell
me that and to say that he “found it very instructive and surprisingly accurate
even 60 years after it was written.” I was delighted to hear from him and
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remembered of me. Kevin had been in the class in the spring of 2005, and in the
fall, during our “Katrina semester,” studied at Loyola University of
Chicago.* My family and I had taken refuge from the storm and its
aftermath in Chicago, too, and I had made use of the free semester to do
research at the Newberry Library. Kevin and I met near there late
one gorgeous autumn morning for a long, chatty lunch. Afterwards, he reminded
me in his note, “We were walking back towards the L station when I heard the
train go by beneath our feet. I said to you, ‘I think I just missed my train,’
to which you responded, ‘Don't worry, Kevin. Trains are like women. You wait 15
minutes and there's another one.’” <br />
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“I wanted to let you know I think of this advice often,” he wrote, “and it has
brought me great comfort over the years.” </span></div>
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*<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Kevin’s
story of his arrival in New Orleans the weekend before Katrina and his almost
immediate departure for what he and the rest of us at the university thought
would be “a brief holiday” was the lead of an article I wrote that fall for the
magazine <i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/epublications.marquette.edu/conversations/vol29/iss1/11/">Conversations
on Jesuit Higher Education</a></i> on the effects of Katrina on Loyola and
Spring Hill College in Mobile and the response of the country’s other Jesuit
institutions.</span></div>
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public relations executive with Southern Company in Atlanta, recently posted on
her Facebook page, a photo of herself and a small group of other folks who had
been interviewing former president Jimmy Carter about energy matters for a documentary about the
company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As sometimes happens, the
photo triggered a flashback for me, a memory of the night of April 6, 1976, the
night of the Democratic presidential primary in Wisconsin. I was teaching
journalism at Marquette University then and moonlighting as a reporter for WISN radio in the summers, on weekends and on
election nights. I was out with my tape recorder that night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The contestants were Morris
Udall, U.S. representative from Arizona and Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut
farmer and former governor of the state, who was traveling the country with his
suit bag slung over his shoulder in an improbable quest for the Democratic
presidential nomination. He had had successes in earlier state primaries, but
the polls were showing him behind Udall, and the returns that night consistently showed Udall
leading.</span><br />
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journalists in a corridor leading to Udall’s suite at the Hotel Schroeder, on Sixth
St., Udall did not come out to talk to us, but I vividly recall his wife
pushing through the crowd to get into their suite. She talked, but only to say,
“Let me through, please.”</span></div>
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and I left the Udall watch and drove across town on Wisconsin Ave. to the grand old Pfister Hotel on the east
side of the Milwaukee. There, supporters and news people were gathered in a ballroom,
and the supporters were glum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Someone at a desk near the door handed me a
peel-off label my with “Carter Campaign News Media Wisconsin Election Night”
typed on it. That’s up on a wall as I write, alongside the press card issued to
me by the Chicago Police Dept. when I went to work on United Press
International's national broadcast news desk 14 years earlier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I stuck the label on my lapel,
and almost immediately in the midst of that crowd, I came on an old friend and
former boss from my UPI days, John Pelletreau, the broadcast news editor, chatting
with UPI political reporter Arnold Sawislak. We talked for awhile, and at some
point, I asked if either knew what floor Carter’s suite was on. Arnie told me
the floor—whatever it was—and I went for an elevator ride.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The first person I saw when
the doors opened was Roslyn Carter. She was in a housecoat studying a sheet of
paper with returns on it. I introduced myself. Behind her was a giant of a
Secret Service man who looked at me menacingly. “Shall I take care of this guy?”
he asked her. “No,” Mrs. Carter said. “He’s o.k.” The Secret Service man backed
away, but stayed close enough to deal with me in a hurry if it turned out I
wasn’t o.k.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I switched on my tape
recorder. “What do these numbers mean?” “It looks to me like
Jimmy’s pulling ahead.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> ”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> she said. She had columns of figures on that sheet and was adding
them up and down and across, and it appeared to me that what they were telling her was right.—her
husband had gained on Udall and had a
slight lead.</span><br />
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and she was generous in talking to me, but I didn’t keep her long. It was
obvious she wanted to go get the latest numbers. I went back downstairs, got a
drink from the bar, and found Pelletreau and Sawislak again to brag about my exclusive. </span><br />
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was that the returns gave Carter his victory, but he finally showed up in the
ballroom to the cheers of his supporters. There’s nothing so boisterous as the
cheering of a crowd whose team—or candidate—is losing only to emerge with a victory. That one
was raucus.</span></div>
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when Carter held up a copy of the first edition of the next morning’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Milwaukee Sentinel</i> with the banner
headline “CARTER UPSET BY UDALL.” The
picture, of course, was reminiscent of the famous one of President Harry S Truman holding up a copy
of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chicago Tribune</i> after his
upset victory over Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While the crowd roared, I
left the ballroom and drove back to the radio station to edit my tape and write
stories for the late night and early morning newscasts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The victory helped Jimmy
Carter secure the Democratic presidential nomination and, in the general
election, beat the incumbent, Gerald Ford to become President of the United
States.</span><br />
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I could slip into conversations the line, “Well, when I interviewed Roslyn
Carter….”</span></div>
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movement writes:</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“After Obama’s declaration of support for so-called ‘gay
marriage,’ all the evidence has clearly fallen into place, and I am now
absolutely convinced that Obama was born in Kenya. Not only that, we in the movement are certain that the man known as Barack Obama was born a female named ‘Barbara.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“This is what happened, and in the movement we know
this for a fact. Her Kenyan father and American mother brought the infant Barbara Obama to the United States from
Kenya right after she was born, and they settled in
Hawaii The
father was disappointed at having a female child and was determined to have a
son. Barbara’s mother, however, was incapable of having any more children, so
the father decided to have his daughter’s sex changed. As a Kenyan, his
decisions were law in that household. All this has been documented by Barbara’s
grandmother, the mother of Barbara’s father, whose diary, with the Kenyan birth
certificate tucked between the pages, was recently found in a hut in the
village in which she had lived. All this is widely known among the birthers. I
am told on the best authority, also that the documentation is in the hands of
John Boehner and Eric Cantor, who plan to release it at just the right moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“But to continue this curious story, once in Hawaii, the parents contracted with </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">a renowned sex change surgeon who practiced in Hawaii </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> to perform the operation. On the day of the surgery, they took to the
child to him, and the surgeon began his work. My source--a well-known
figure in the birther movement--tells me that the surgeon reworked the infant’s
private parts into a penis and a scrotum. Unfortunately, however, the parents
of the male infant whose tiny testicles were to be transplanted into the new scrotum
of Barbara/Barack reneged on their agreement to provide their child’s
testicles. As a result, the surgeon simply sewed up the empty scrotum. (To of us in the movement, of
course, that explains Obama’s lack of cojones).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Nevertheless, at the father’s insistence and, I’m
told, for an additional fee, the surgeon completed a Hawaii birth certificate
for ‘Barack’ Obama, a male child, and recorded that he was born in Hawaii. All of that is well known
among those in the know, Unfortunately, the surgeon mysteriously disappeared
almost immediately after Obama’s bogus inauguration. Coincidence? I think not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“What has that to do with Obama’s support for
marriage between homosexuals? Everything. Without testicles, you see, Obama is
still technically a woman, and she is ‘married’ to Michelle, another
woman. That is clearly a homosexual relationship that he would like to have
recognized by another ‘marriage’ to her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> “It is all so
clear now, isn't it.”</span></div>old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-49277939979268700322012-05-09T09:39:00.005-07:002012-05-09T09:39:53.880-07:00A father and daughter look at graduation<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<br />
A note with instructions for faculty participants in Loyola’s graduation was
in my in-box the other day, and that got me musing on the 2004 graduation, when
our daughter Mary, our youngest child, graduated from Loyola.<br />
<br />
Mary, was a columnist for the university’s weekly newspaper, <i>The Maroon</i>, in
her senior year, and a few days before her final column appeared, the adviser
told me she thought it was delightful. I stopped in at <i>The Maroon </i>layout room and
read it on the flats, and I was moved to write a reply for the same issue. I
think I got mine in just ahead of the paper’s deadline, and the op ed page
editor accepted it.<br />
<br />
My musing led me to Google the column and my response, and I thought my two or
three readers might be entertained by the exchange in this graduation month.<br />
<br />
Here was Mary’s column. My response follows.<br />
<br />
Goodbye, Loyola. I am off to Paris to begin a glamorous new life ...
eventually, anyway. Between that time and graduation, however, I will be back
under my parents' roof, which I am totally and utterly okay with. Not having to
pay rent will not suck.<br />
<br />
Plus, it's cool to have a curfew at the age of 22, right?<br />
<br />
Some people might wonder if it bothers me that I don't have a job yet. Does
the fact that I don't even have any leads make me wonder if I've wasted four
years of my life in the wrong major? They might ask whether I worry that the
world will never see that I could be so much more than just the college
newspaper columnist with a bad picture and a lame catchphrase.<br />
<br />
I really haven't thought about these things, to be honest. Sure I may have
had a few sleepless nights where I've considered that a career in gaming and
bartending might be a safer, more lucrative path, but who hasn't?<br />
<br />
Only recently did I find a little extra time during which to pause and
seriously think about my future plans.<br />
<br />
Last week my roommate and I waited five hours at the hospital until the
doctor finally saw her and diagnosed her acute nausea as food poisoning.<br />
<br />
Never mind that I could have diagnosed this condition at home in less than a
minute, although my medical expertise is limited to knowing what aisle at
Walgreens contains the acetaminophen. And never mind that the term
"Emergency Room" is severely misleading and indicates that people who
go in there to be treated will be attended to immediately. (As if, I don't know,
there was some sort of emergency.) <br />
All the waiting is really a good thing, because it gives the sick a chance
to fully realize the depths of their pain and the amazing and loyal people who
wait for them a chance to catch up on three weeks' worth of crossword puzzles.<br />
<br />
Even though sitting in a hospital waiting room is surprisingly low on the
list of things I enjoy doing into the wee hours of the morning, I didn't let
that time go to waste. <br />
Again, I had a chance to work on some crossword puzzles, catch up on season
four of the "X-Files" and do a lot of thinking. A lot of thinking. A
lot. And really, when and where else was I going to make time to taste and
experience all the fine cuisine that hospital vending machines have to offer?
When? I even got to read the front page of the previous day's The
Times-Picayune twice. (Twice!)<br />
<br />
Around hour three, however, the incredible fun came to an abrupt halt. I had
been staring into space for about 45 minutes when it suddenly occurred to me
that this was about to be my life for the next few months: one long and
uncertain stay in the hospital waiting room that is my parents' house, with
limited resources to keep me busy.<br />
<br />
As much as I enjoy marathon games of tic-tac-toe - and I do - I suspect it
isn't the most productive use of my time, nor might it be the most efficient
means to finding a job.<br />
<br />
It's strange to think that I won't have school to go back to in the fall.
It's not that I'm afraid to leave the safe confines of a college campus.<br />
<br />
After all, no amount of studying will give me the friends for whom enduring
four hours in a claustrophobic room are worth and who I am confident would do
the same for me. Nor will it ever prepare any of us for the bad sushi that will
sometimes come our way. The uncertainty of not knowing what is next is what
truly terrifies me.<br />
<br />
I pondered this thought for another hour.<br />
<br />
Finally, at 2:30 in the morning, my roommate and I, exhausted and
malnourished, went home - she with a prescription for what I suspect is nothing
more than Mylanta, and I with the resolve to just stop freaking out. I don't
begrudge those who already have jobs or any sort of post-college plans (for the
most part). <br />
I take comfort in knowing that I'm not alone in my doubts, that there's
always Moler Beauty College (although I'm calling that "Plan B"), and
that I have at least another few years before my parents kick me out (and
that's where Parisian sugar daddy comes in). Au revoir, mes amis.<br />
<br />
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Dear Mary, <br />
I read in your column in the Life and Times section, a few pages on, that
you will be graduating in a couple of weeks and moving back home to think about
how you intend to gain fame and fortune when you finally head off to Paris.<br />
<br />
That's a lot for a father to digest at one sitting.<br />
<br />
Like others who have been responsible for the care and feeding of this
year's graduating class for the last 20 years or more, your mother and I are
experiencing a tangle of emotions - especially because you are the youngest of
our five.<br />
<br />
As we've anticipated watching you stride across that stage in cap and gown,
we have relived the morning you walked into a kindergarten classroom clutching
our hands.<br />
<br />
And it hasn't taken much of a stretch of the mind's eye to see you standing
in your crib for the first time, wobbly but proud, your diaper draping the
latitude of the hip-huggers you wear today.<br />
<br />
You were still not much more than a child, or so it seemed, the day we moved
you into the dorm for your freshman year, then, just as we wake one spring
morning startled to find the azaleas have burst into full flower, one day you
came in the door and you were a young woman.<br />
<br />
When we paused to wonder at how that happened we realized how much you have
changed over these last four years.<br />
<br />
You have learned a great deal, in classrooms, in the library and even at
places like Madigan's.<br />
<br />
You've matured emotionally and intellectually in ways you perhaps don't
recognize.<br />
<br />
You've developed into one terrific writer. And as we consider all that you
have become, we are proud of you beyond measure, as we are of your four
siblings.<br />
<br />
Sure, I know you have had a few sleepless nights lately weighing a career in
bartending or crossword-puzzle solving against going for a graduate degree at
Moler Barber College.<br />
<br />
And when, with diploma cover in hand, you maneuver those narrow stairs
leading down from the stage next Saturday you may see only desert stretching
out ahead of you.<br />
<br />
It may be cold comfort, but the person in front is likely stepping into that
same void, and so is the person in back of you.<br />
<br />
I remember breaking under a dinner table interrogation in my senior year and
confessing that I didn't know what I was going to do. My mother burst into
tears and said, "If only you had taken some education courses, you could
at least teach."<br />
<br />
Somehow I made it through, and so did my classmates - in part by luck, in
part by purpose, even with a few side trips along the way. (And, as it turned
out, Mom, I could at least teach.) You and your classmates have the wherewithal
to do the same.<br />
<br />
Now there's that matter of your living at home for a while. You wrote that
you will have "another few years before my parents kick me out," but
that was a typo, wasn't it? You meant "months," didn't you?
"Weeks?"<br />
<br />
Whichever, you may be "totally and utterly okay" with it. But
remember, as Ecclesiastes might have written, there's a time to nest and a time
to fly.<br />
<br />
We do want to make you feel at home, though, for the short time you are with
us.<br />
<br />
You will find fresh linens on your bed. And we'll lay in a stock of the
coffee you've become addicted to in your college years and extra munchies to
get you through reruns of "Friends."<br />
<br />
At least for the first week.<br />
<br />
We'll even deliver the want ads section of The Times-Picayune to your
bedroom door every morning.<br />
<br />
Love, Dad<br />
<br />
P.S. About that curfew. Since you'll be a college graduate, we've decided to
extend it to 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. <br />
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I recently made an appointment with my doctor for my annual physical exam, and in the week before the day of the appointment, I developed a rash and a little cluster of pustules low on my posterior, at that chasm between the two halves of the body (I’ll spare you a description of the contortions I had to go through to see what was causing the painful itching I had). At about the same time, and I didn’t know whether this was related or not, I began to experience some pain urinating. <br />
<br />
I was in an examination room when Ted opened the door. He is just a few years younger than I and has been my doctor for about 30 years. I have great confidence in him and consider him a friend. During my annual physicals we have often spent more time just chatting than with the exams themselves.<br />
<br />
He is an avuncular, generous fellow, and over the years he has hosted students from local medical schools —always females, in my experience—who move from room to room with him as he makes his rounds. He explains to them his diagnoses of the complaints his patients bring to him and answers their questions. <br />
<br />
Usually, he has had just one student in tow, but this time, four lovely young women with fetching smiles and wearing starched and shiny lab coats stood behind him in the doorway. He and I greeted each other and he asked why I was there. It was time for my annual physical, I said. “But I have something else I need to talk to you about.”<br />
<br />
“What’s that?”<br />
<br />
I looked at the smiling doctors-to-be.<br />
<br />
“I’d rather tell you privately.”<br />
<br />
He would be back, he said. In the meantime, he would have another young woman, a Chinese who was studying to be a nurse practitioner, go through the preliminary work. She went down the checklist about my general health, took my pulse and listened to me breathe.<br />
<br />
Ted returned with one of the young women, and introduced her as a first-year medical student. She beamed. He told her to wait outside and dismissed the nurse practitioner student. <br />
<br />
It was time for the <i>piece de resistance</i>, the digital exam of my prostate. <br />
<br />
I took off my slacks and stood next to the examining table. <br />
<br />
“So what’s this private matter,” he asked, as he snapped on a latex glove. <br />
<br />
“You’ll see it when you are down there.” <br />
<br />
“Drop your shorts.” <br />
<br />
I did as I was told, and shorts around my ankles I bent over the table. He looked.<br />
<br />
“Shingles,” he exclaimed. He was exuberant. <br />
<br />
“Classic shingles,” he said, as he checked the condition of my prostate. <br />
<br />
“Your prostate is enlarged,” he said, “and that’s because it has been infected by the shingles. There’s no evidence of an abnormality. But that’s what’s causing the pain when you urinate.”<br />
<br />
He took off the glove. I resumed breathing.<br />
<br />
“Would you mind if I showed the student?” He asked me.<br />
<br />
Modesty gave me pause. “I’d hate to get her all excited.” <br />
<br />
He laughed. “Pshaw.” <br />
<br />
I agreed to let her see and I assumed the posture of a shy ostrich. He opened the door and asked the student in.<br />
<br />
“Classic shingles,” he said to her. She looked at my 75-year-old nether region—I assume she looked—while he discussed the symptoms. I wondered whether she was still smiling. <br />
<br />
When Ted finally ushered her out, I dug my face out of the examination table and dressed. He and I talked about the remedies for shingles and he prescribed a couple of pills for me to take during the next week. Then he was off to another room.<br />
<br />
The young woman passed me without a word as I was leaving. But I understood. She probably didn’t recognize my face.<br />
<br />
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<br />old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-74251616641720092342011-04-25T13:03:00.000-07:002014-06-17T10:42:11.124-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It was once common for a
newspaper to state a motto (slogan, tagline) in its nameplate on Page One. Like
the</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">New York Times</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">' "All the News That's Fit to Print,"
the motto was a statement of principle for some newspapers; for others, such as
the<i>Chicago Tribune (</i>"World's Greatest Newspaper") or the
Allentown</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Morning Call</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">("Lehigh Valley's Greatest Newspaper"), it was simply a
chest-out boast. What follows are some mottoes that have flown under the flags
of American newspapers through the years. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Worth Looking Into</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;">--Aberdeen (S.D.) American News<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Newspaper That Pays
for Itself</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;">--Abilene (Tex.)
Reporter News</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Give Light and the
People Will Find Their Way</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(Albuquerque) New
Mexico State Tribune</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">(adopted by all Scripps-Howard newspapers)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks to Angus Lind,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Times-Picayune</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Fearless And
Wide-Awake Democratic Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The (Alexandria, La.)
Weekly Town Talk</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Lehigh Valley's Greatest
Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The (Allentown, Pa.)
Morning Call</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">If You Don't Want It
Printed, Don't Let It Happen</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Aspen (Colo.)
Daily News</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks to Angus Lind,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Times-Picayune</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">x</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Years The South's Standard Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Atlanta
Constitution</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Covers Dixie Like The
Dew</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Atlanta Journal</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">South's Oldest
Newspaper--Established 1785</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The (Augusta, Ga.)
Chronicle</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Great Newspaper of the Southern San Joaquin Valley</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Bakersfield
(Calif.) Californian</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Light For All</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The
(Baltimore) Sun</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Maine's Largest Daily
Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(Bangor, Me.) Daily
News</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">At the Crossroads of
West Texas</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Big Spring (Texas)
Herald</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks
to Angus Lind,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
Times-Picayune</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Clean Newsy Newspaper For the Home</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The (Beaver, Pa.)
Daily Times</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Hometown Newspaper
Of The Southern Tier</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The
(Binghamton, N.Y) Evening Press</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
Liked by Many, Cussed by Some, Read by Them All</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;">--The Blackshear (Ga.)
Times</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Fanning the Flames of
Discontent</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;">--(Boonville, Mo.)
Anderson Valley Advertiser</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Gimlet -- It Bores
In.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(Brownsville, Ky.)
Edmonson News</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Boston's Independent
Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Boston Traveler</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">America's Most Colorful
Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Burlington (Vt.) Free
Press</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks
to John Engels, International Business Initiatives--IBI]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">To Give The News
Impartially, Without Fear or Favor.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"> <b><i>--</i></b><i>Chattanooga
Times Free Press</i> <b>[Thanks to Bill Peterson]</b></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">An Independent Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Chicago Daily News</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">World's Greatest
Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Chicago Tribune</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Open to all Parties--but
influenced by none</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">-</span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">-The (Cincinnati) Centinel of the North-Western
Territory</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Newspaper That
Serves Its Readers</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Cleveland Press</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Independent But Not
Neutral</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">
--Colebrook (N.H.) News and Sentinel</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Weekly Newspaper for
the Mutual Benefit of Ourselves, Colleton and Beaufort Districts and Mankind
Generally.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">--</span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">Colleton and Beaufort (S.C.) Sun</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks to Debbie van Tuyll, Augusta State
University]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Independent Since 1880</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">/</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">America's Oldest Independent College Daily</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Cornell Daily Sun</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks to Donna Kramer]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Continuously Published
for</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">x</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Years</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Dallas Times
Herald</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Voice of the Rocky
Mountain Empire</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Denver Post</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Colorado's First
Newspaper--Founded in 1859</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(Denver) Rocky
Mountain News</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">On Guard for</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">x</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Years</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Detroit Free Press</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Home Newspaper For
More Than</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">x</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Years</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Detroit News</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">America's Oldest
Continuously Published Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Hartford Courant</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks to Diego Sorbara]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Houston's Family
Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Houston Chronicle</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mississippi's Leading
Newspaper For More Than A Century</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The (Jackson)
Clarion-Ledger</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Leader In The Growth
And Development Of Florida And The South For</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">x</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Years</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The (Jacksonville)
Florida Times-Union</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">America's No. 1 Small
City / Capital of the East Texas Oil Field</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Kilgore (Tex.) News
Herald</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Oldest Newspaper
West of the Mississippi</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(Little Rock) Arkansas Gazette</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Long Island's
Only-Online Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">-<b>-The Long Island
Times</b></span></i><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks
to Denise Newton]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">An Independent
Democratic Newspaper Of The First Class Unchallenged In Its Field</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Longview (Tex.)
Daily News</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Largest Circulation In
The Entire West</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Los Angeles Herald
Examiner</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Largest Circulation In
The West</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Los Angeles Times</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Only Newspaper in
the World That Gives a Damn About Yerington</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Mason Valley (Nev.)
News</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Your GOOD NEWSpaper!</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The McKenzie (Tenn.)
Banner</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Florida's Most Complete
Newspaper (also, Florida's Complete Newspaper)</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Miami Herald</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Central And South
Alabama's Largest Evening Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(Montgomery) Alabama
Journal</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Serving America's
International Gateway Since 1837</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The (New Orleans)
Times-Picayune</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Lively One, With a
Mind of Its Own</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The (New Orleans)
States-Item</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks
to Angus Lind,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
Times-Picayune</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Truth is Always Fair</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(New Orleans) Daily
Truth</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks
to Angus Lind,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
Times-Picayune</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Best Paper, the
Brightest Paper, the Cheapest Paper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(New Orleans)Evening
Chronicle</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks
to Angus Lind,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
Times-Picayune</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Only Louisiana
Newspaper for a Dime a Week</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(New Orleans) Evening
Telegram</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks
to Angus Lind,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
Times-Picayune</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Patroness of Peace,
Commerce, and the Liberal Arts</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The (New York)
American Minerva</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">New York's Picture
Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(New York) Daily News</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Established</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">x</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Years Ago. A European Edition Is Published Daily
In Paris</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--New York
Herald-Tribune</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It Shines For All.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The New York Sun</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">All The News That's Fit
to Print</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The New York Times</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Haec olim meminisse
juvabit [It will profit us to remember these things in the future. Virgil.]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Niles' Weekly Register</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Good Paper, Good Ink,
Good Work and Prompt Delivery</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Osceola (Ark.) Times</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Discover What's In It
For You</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;">--(Palmdale, Calif.)
Antelope Valley Press</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Oldest Daily
Newspaper In The United States--Founded 1771 / An Independent Newspaper For All
The People</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">-</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">-The Philadelphia Inquirer</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The State's Greatest
Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The (Phoenix) Arizona
Republic</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Published In The
Interests Of The Oregon Country And Its People</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(Portland) Oregon
Journal</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Going where no dog has
gone before -- and without a leash!</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The only good sacred cow
is medium rare with fries.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Putnam Pit
(Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee)</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks to Geoff Davidian, publisher]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Mountain West's
First Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(Salt Lake City)
Deseret News</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Constructive Force In
The Community</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--San Antonio (Tex.)
Light</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The City's Only
Home-Owned Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--San Francisco
Chronicle</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Monarch of the Dailies</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--San Franciso Examiner</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">San Francisco's Evening
Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--News Call Bulletin</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Oldest Daily
Newspaper In Southern California</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Santa Barbara
News-Press</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The West's Oldest
Newspaper...Founded 1849</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The (Santa Fe) New
Mexican</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Light of the Coastal
Empire</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Savannah Morning News</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks to Julia Muller, Savannah Now]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Today's News Today</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Schenectady (N.Y.)
Union-Star</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Great Newspaper Of
The Great Northwest (also, The Voice of the Northwest)</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Seattle
Post-Intelligencer</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Only Evening
Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--St.Louis Post-Dispatch</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Oldest Newspaper in
Minnesota</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--St. Paul Pioneer-Press</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hometown Folks Serving
Hometown Folks for Over 20 Years (Also Serving Sylacauga and Pell City)</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Talledega (Ala.)
Daily Home</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks
to Angus Lind,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
Times-Picayune</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">One of America's Great
Newspapers--In One of America's Great Cities</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Toledo Blade</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">116 Years In the Town
Too Tough To Die/No Tombstone Is Complete Without Its Epitaph</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Tombstone (Ariz.)
Epitaph</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks
to Charles Walker]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Oklahoma's Greatest
Newspaper / Reliability, Character, Enterprise</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Tulsa Daily World</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Kansas' Leading Home
Newspaper For</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">x</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Years</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--The Wichita Eagle</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Your Hometown Newspaper
Since 1916</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--(Wiggins, Miss) Stone
County Enterprise</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">[Thanks
to Angus Lind,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
Times-Picayune</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">]</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">An International Daily
Newspaper</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Christian Science
Monitor</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Righteousness Exalteth A
Nation</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Freedom's Journal</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The World Is Governed
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old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-5178521551217729132010-07-27T18:20:00.001-07:002012-02-27T13:17:47.182-08:00A summer day in New OrleansI had a little time to kill this afternoon, and I decided to get gas for the car while the needle was still hovering above "Empty." <br /><br />The temperature had been in the 90s, and no rain was in the forecast I had heard on the noon news, so I punched the button on the pump to get the deluxe wash,too. “See the attendant,” a pop-up on the screen told me. I filled my tank and went inside the store to do what I had been told.<br /><br />“The car wash is broken,” a dark fellow with what I took to be a thick Pakistani accent told me. I had not heard him clearly. “What?” I asked. A lighter skinned man behind the immigrant said more clearly, “The car wash is broken.”<br /><br />Another day in New Orleans, I thought, not altogether happily, and walked outside and drove away.<br /><br />An hour or so later, I was sitting in the den reading, and I heard rain against the window pane. “Lucky for me the wash was broken,” I thought. (Had I gotten the wash, of course, I would have muttered, "Just my luck.")<br /><br />I should have second-guessed the weatherman. Earlier, I had looked up at the sky, and it was filled with great fluffy creatures: crouching rabbits, begging poodles and a full-bodied naked woman lying on her side.<br /><br />After the rain had stopped, I took the dogs out into the steam, and we walked three-quarters around the block when the rain began again. I had had the foresight to take an umbrella, but the dogs had not, so they needed drying when we got home. Still, as soon as I had worked them over with beach towels, they shook whatever wet was left on them on me and the furniture.<br /><br />By then, the rain had stopped again, and we have had no more since.<br /><br />And no more cumulus rabbits, poodles, or – I am sad to say – full-bodied naked women.<br /><br />Nuthin' but blue skies.old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-20376423249567543182010-06-19T07:31:00.000-07:002011-01-04T09:01:48.349-08:00Dux Academicus<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ocZs1B8QXfM/TR_5Gm8Fm3I/AAAAAAAAADw/eUYVqucSFA0/s1600/dux%2Bphoto.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 128px; height: 96px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ocZs1B8QXfM/TR_5Gm8Fm3I/AAAAAAAAADw/eUYVqucSFA0/s320/dux%2Bphoto.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557434357125585778" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />Loyola University honored me with its Dux Academicus award for 2009 at the January convocation. The award is given annually to a faculty member who “is able to impart the knowledge and wisdom of the humanities, sciences or the professions to students in a manner consistent with the unique philosophy of Loyola University New Orleans as a Jesuit institution of higher education.” My response--I was alloted two minutes--was the following:</span><br /><br /> I am greatly honored – and the moreso because I so admire and respect those of our colleagues whom I have watched come up here in the past to accept the Dux Academicus. I am in awe of that company. <br /><br />To be singled out when there are so many of you merit this award, is humbling.<br />And to be recognized for outstanding teaching, scholarship and service in a Jesuit institution makes the moment golden. <br /><br />I have been with the Jesuits, on both sides of the desk, for nearly 60 years all told—from that time when they wore those forbidding black cassocks to now, when we might occasionally spot a Jesuit on campus in pink button-down shirt and Madras Bermuda shorts. At one time, I had the temerity to think I might be one of them and entered a novitiate. I lasted until lent. <br /><br />Though the Jesuits are fewer now than when they wore the black robes, their ideas are still the palpable soul of this campus. Justin Nystrom, of the history department, and I walked together from the parking garage to Bobet Monday morning, and I asked him how he had enjoyed his first semester of teaching here. Justin said, “it’s nice to be at a place with a broader vision.” And indeed it is--after his one semester or my fifty-seven.<br /><br />It occurred to me long ago that we lay faculty who are privileged to be associated with the Jesuits absorb at least some of their characteristics, to our students’ benefit: that purposeful, spiritually driven striving to form young men and women, intellectually and morally, who will leave Loyola—to paraphrase Cardinal Newman—fit for the world.<br /><br />My wife, Kathy, also a Jesuit university graduate, and I have five children, and we sent each of them to Loyola--not just because the price was right--though the price was right--but because we knew that this faculty, you with your broader vision, would do an outstanding job of educating them in the Jesuit tradition. We were not disappointed.<br /><br />It is an honor, in itself, to be associated with you.old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-49929903078261781892010-06-18T09:12:00.000-07:002010-06-19T07:04:08.688-07:00Discounting Happy MotoringThe cute young woman in the white pants suit who pitches Progressive automobile insurance 0n television has made us all aware that of the many discounts available: for good drivers, good students, non-smokers, and the like. I'd like to suggest that discounts also be provided to drivers who do not have cell phones. <br /><br />I thought of that this morning on the way to campus when a fellow in one of those monstrosities that you have to buy at a lot on top of a craggy mountain came at me at an intersection and I saw my life pass before my eyes (not a pretty show, by the way). We avoided an accident, but I'm sure we would not have nearly met that way had he not had his cell phone to his ear. <br /><br />God knows where his mind was. Having just left home myself, I figured that maybe his wife was giving him what-for for having forgotten all the things he should have done yesterday and telling him he'd darn well better not forget today. <br /><br />I know I'd be listening to my wife give me the dickens for that sort of thing if I had a cell phone. Without one, however, I just get to listen to that before I go out the door, say my "yes, dears," and climb into the silence of my car. So I drive much more carefully than my near new acquaintance, and I think it only just that my insurance rates be lower than his<br /><br />In fact, it occurs to me that it's also dangerous for me to drive with my wife alongside me and listen to her recite all my undone tasks and other faults, of which the list is just a page or two longer than the litany of the saints, and how much safer I am when I'm alone in the car and able to devote my full attention to avoiding accidents with people who are talking (or, in the case of husbands, listening) on their cell phones.<br /><br />Come to think of it, maybe the insurance companies also ought to give a safe driver discount for husbands who drive alone.old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-35174529116380875422010-01-07T11:15:00.000-08:002010-08-29T16:34:24.915-07:00Two articles published on paperWhile I was putting finishing touches on the syllabus for my spring course Communications Writing, I decided to let students see (and criticize, if they wish) postings on this blog. For them, and for my other two or three readers, I’ll include two articles that I wrote for <span style="font-style: italic;">Conversations</span>, a publication distributed to faculty and staff members of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities.
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<br /><a href="http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/Conversations/No35_2009/no35_lorenz.pdf">
<br />“Journalism and Jesuit Mission,” Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, No. 35 (Spring 2009)</a>
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<br />old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-19509440334346461962010-01-01T17:02:00.000-08:002010-05-18T10:46:55.536-07:00Plumbing the UnfathomableThere’s something about the holidays that brings out the best in people.<br /><br />And, in my experience, the worst in the plumbing. <br /><br />I remember one New Year’s Eve when my mother was visiting and was doing the dishes. Somehow, she dropped a shot glass into the disposal and ground it up. The water rose in the sink.<br /><br />My mother cried. <br /><br />I crawled under the sink with my wrench and swore. Everyone else went outside to watch fireworks. <br /><br />The next day, the plumbers came. The problem was not in the disposal, they found, but in the drain pipe out to the main waste drain. They came back, dug up the yard, replaced the pipe—a root had grown into it—and all was well again.<br /><br />I thought of that in the week between Christmas and New Year’s. <br /><br />The Delta faucet on our kitchen sink had been dripping, so the day after Christmas I went to the neighborhood hardware store to get the washers I’d need to stop the drip. The store was closed. It would not reopen until Monday, I read on the sign taped to the door. I went to Lowe’s, found the washers, went through the automatic checkout, picked up my change, and went out to the car. I took out the key and realized I had left the washers in the sack at the checkout point.<br /><br />Back to the store. Two men were at the same checkout point. <br /><br />Did you find…? <br /><br />These yores? one asked. Here y’are podner. He handed me the little packet, which he had taken out of the sack I had put in.<br /><br />Back home, I replaced the springs and washers, and that took care of the drip. But when I turned the water back on, the hot water was a mere trickle. I must have put in a couple of hours opening the patient up again, closing, opening, closing, until I figured that rusted filings in the pipes might have clogged it. I needed a specialist. I called my regular plumber.<br /><br />Sorry, he told me. I’m retiring on January first. Too many forms to fill out, too much red tape. After the first, I’m going to work for the parish government as an inspector. To be part of the problem, I thought to myself.<br /><br />I called a plumber in the neighborhood. He confirmed my diagnosis and showed me a T that looked like a cross section of one of those arteries in the commercials that have me talking to my doctor. It’s a wonder any water got through at all. (Reminder: Be sure to have cholesterol checked at next physical.)<br /><br />He replaced some pipes and got the water flowing well again.<br /><br />Not what it should be, he said. This ‘uns pretty old, so you might replace it. When you get a new one, call us and we’ll install it fer ya.<br /><br />We spent another hour together, the plumber and I, in the bathroom of the upstairs rental unit. The tenants had complained of the failure of the bathtub to drain properly, largely because, as I determined, they had no screen over the drain. They could have solved the problem with a trip to the hardware store, but it’s easier to call the landlord. <br /><br />The toilet isn’t flushing right, either, the tenant had told me. It hasn’t worked well for a couple of months.<br /><br />He or his roommate had taken the lid off so they could manipulate the innards to flush.<br /><br />I had the plumber replace the Fluidmaster. I’ve done my share of installing Fluidmasters, and I figured I’d have the him do it, and I would take his fee off the income tax. I can’t do that with my own work.<br /><br />Oh, yeah, the tenant said, all the electricity has been off in one room for awhile.<br /><br />That I fixed with a click of the circuit breaker. Then I picked up all the fuses that someone had scattered around the room that holds the electrical boxes (one box with breakers, one with fuses).<br /><br />On the way home I stopped at the hardware store in my neighborhood to pick up a strainer for the tub. I had measured the diameter of the opening with a folded dollar bill. 1 ½ inches in diameter looked perfect. But when I went back the next day, I found that the strainer was just a bit larger than the hole. I went around the corner to the hardware store near the rental and got one that fit. Then I took the larger one back to my neighborhood store.<br /><br />My father always told me, things will be better after the first of the year. He just didn’t tell me which year.old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-63454139581049906902009-11-23T14:52:00.000-08:002009-11-23T14:54:22.888-08:00Report of my deathOne of my quirks is to google names of some people I know, including myself. When I checked the e-mail this afternoon, I gulped when I read this:<br /><br />Larry Lorenz Death Notice Larry Lorenz's Obituary by the Grand ...<br />Online death notice for Larry Lorenz. Read Larry Lorenz's life story, offer tributes/condolences, send flowers or create a Larry Lorenz online memorial.<br /><br />And after I gulped, I pulled this little ditty out from deep in my files:<br /><br /><br />The New Suit<br /><br />I have come from the store with a navy blue suit,<br />a red four-in-hand and a starched white shirt,<br />and black shoes so polished that they will catch<br />the sparkle of a ballroom chandelier<br />and the twinkle of candlelight in a dark restaurant.<br />And I shall wear them all for events of passage,<br />christenings and weddings and funerals—<br />perhaps even my own, on that morning<br />when grinning death appears from my closet,<br />as formal as a well-practiced butler,<br />and invites me to slip on the coat.<br /><br /><br />When I read the obit, I realized the stiff was an imposter. It isn't time for the coat quite yet.<br /><br />Whew!old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-70219356691652634562009-10-08T09:56:00.000-07:002009-10-08T10:31:46.833-07:00Now, arguably, this is, like, I mean, you know....<a href="http://maristpoll.marist.edu/107-whatever-takes-top-honors-as-most-annoying/">Pollsters at Marist College</a> have found that we Americans are most annoyed by the use of “whatever” in conversations. Forty-seven percent of us. Another 25 percent are annoyed by “you know.”<br /><br />Whatever.<br /><br />I mean, my list of annoying words and phrases is long, and the older and more curmudgeonly I grow, the longer the list grows.<br /><br />I mean, beginning a sentence with "I mean" annoys me no end. Especially when it is paired with “you (ya) know.”<br /><br />And I, like, nearly go mad when I, like, hear the staccato repetition of "like" all day. As when students on campus say (in their lingo,"go"), like, "I mean, you know, I was like, you know. I mean...." When I get them in class and they say that in discussion, I stop them dead with “No. I do not know what you mean.” Or, “it’s not ‘like ethics’; it’s “ethics.” They look at me blankly for a second, then patiently translate what they are saying into language an old fuddy-duddy professor can understand.<br /><br />Arguably, "arguably" isn't a word that's needed, but I get the impression that many writers (and some speakers) today aren't willing to make a flat statement and face argument, so they hedge with "arguably" <span style="font-style:italic;">ad nauseum</span>.<br /><br />In fact, I've wondered whether the Sulzbergers couldn't save millions on ink each year if they eliminated "arguably" and "famously" from the pages of the <span style="font-style:italic;">Times</span>. Just this week, I read there that "Antone's Home Of The Blues was, famously, at 29th and Guadaloupe...." and that Lance Armstrong is "arguably the world's most famous endurance athlete...."<br /><br />I should say, iconic <span style="font-style:italic;">New York Times </span>which this week referred to "Maine's most iconic industry" and wrote that Irving Penn transformed cigarette butts "to iconic status." With that one, another couple of million, at least, goes down a drain on Eighth Ave. each year.<br /><br />Now, television reporters like to interject "now" at the beginning of sentences--sometimes two or three in the same story. And by the time I have gotten past the "nows," I can't remember what the story was about.<br /><br />I would add to my list, Brit-isms like "early on," "towards," and "amongst," and one weatherman's "one hour's time" and "in the overnight hours."<br /><br />Now, some day--at the end of the day--my wife is going to find me dead on the couch in front of the tv set, a newspaper clutched in my cold, dead hand, and, my face like, I mean, you know, arguably contorted into a reasonable facsimile of Munch's famously iconic "The Scream." <br /><br />Thank you for reading my rant. And, please, dear reader, do not say “No problem.”old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-46705120801856870562009-08-17T07:53:00.000-07:002009-08-17T09:14:11.064-07:00Happy Birthday, AbbyToward the middle of August of 1973, Kathy packed a bag for the hospital and put it by the window of our bedroom.<br /><br />Her due date had been sometime in late July or early August—the exact date escapes me—but it had passed, and we were concerned. One day we went to the hospital for tests. I stood next to the doctor as he clipped an X-ray to the light panel and studied it.<br /><br />“Congratulations,” he said at last, “you’re going to be a father.”<br /><br />My eyes watered then just as they are doing now, as I relive the moment .<br /><br />Everything was fine. The infant, our first, apparently was just enjoying the warmth and solitude of the womb until she (as it turned out) was good and ready to join us.<br /><br />It was after that that Kathy packed. And every night, before getting ready for bed, I asked how she was feeling and whether that might be the night. Every night, her answer was the same: “No. Not tonight.”<br /><br />On the 16th, I asked again.<br /><br />“Tonight?”<br /><br />“No.”<br /><br />And so we went to bed. Minutes later, she shook me.<br /><br />“Let’s go.”<br /><br />I could have beaten a fireman in getting my clothes back on. And in getting her to the hospital.<br /><br />And then we waited. Hours and hours, into the early morning.<br /><br />Finally, when the child was good and ready, Kathy was wheeled into the delivery room. I put on all the protective gear so that I could be by her side. Within minutes, out came the baby. So fast and so covered with goo that I feared she would slip out of the doctor’s hands and onto the floor. But he had a firm grip, and within seconds he had her breathing and bawling. A nurse took her, cleaned her, wrapped her in a blanket, and took her to Kathy.<br /><br />The baby was all pink and wrinkled with eyes shut tight.<br /><br />“May I touch her?” I asked.<br /><br />“Go ahead,” the doctor said. “She’s yours.”<br /><br />That was 36 years ago today. Half of my lifetime ago. She has a husband and two lovely little sons. But in memory, I hold her for the first time. She is still mine.old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010139803998101777.post-55150791863750804912009-08-09T20:56:00.000-07:002010-01-07T10:04:05.876-08:00Seeking DiMaggio's AutographPicture a 14-year old boy standing at the door to the visitors’ locker room at the Kansas City Blues stadium in 1951. The Blues are a AAA farm team of the New York Yankees, and the Yankees are playing the Blues in the annual exhibition game the two teams play. <br /><br />It’s about the fourth or fifth inning. Yankee manager Casey Stengel, having given the yokels a look at the stars of the team, has pulled them to give the second-stringers a few innings on the field. The boy’s father has told his son that it’s a good time to go try to get players’ autographs, and the boy has gone down to the locker room with his new autograph book in hand. <br /><br />He especially wants DiMaggio’s autograph. The other stars, he’s not sure of. But he knows about DiMaggio. The great Joe DiMaggio.<br /><br />It’s drizzling in Kansas City, but the boy doesn’t care. He’s willing to be soaked, if that’s what he has to do to get DiMaggio’s autograph.<br /><br />The door opens and some men come out and hurry past the boy to one of the taxis in the line along the curb. The taxi drives off. A short man in a suit had held the door for them, and the boy asks the man if they were players. The man tells him they were. The door opens again, and more players head for taxis. They all ignore the book in the boy’s outstretched hand.<br /><br />And then the short man opens he door again and DiMaggio appears in the doorway. The boy knows the face. He edges forward.<br /><br />“Mr. DiMaggio, may I have your autograph?” he asks.<br /><br />“Out of my way, kid,” DiMaggio says. He brushes the boy aside and hurries to a taxi.<br /><br />Other players follow. They ignore the boy, too.<br /><br />The disappointed boy turns to the man holding the door.<br /> <br />“Do you have anything to do with the team?” he asks.<br /><br />“Yes,” the man says. <br /><br />“Would sign my book?”<br /><br />“Sure, kid.” He takes it and the pen the boy offers, signs the book and returns it.<br /><br />“Thanks,” the boy says, and walks back up the ramp to the stands. <br /><br />Only then does the boy look at the book. There’s the signature on the first page: “Phil Rizzuto.” And for the nearly 60 years since, he has treasured that autograph, and in all those years he has never met a finer man.<br /><br />But DiMaggio? When he was grown, and anyone mentioned the great Joe DiMaggio, and he could use such words, the response he practically spat out was always the same. <br /><br />“Joe DiMaggio? Fuck Joe DiMaggio.”old gray j-profhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034451846262054951noreply@blogger.com2