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GARRISON KEILLOR
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At 96, the 'wonder' still has plenty to say
I stopped by to visit an old friend in Chicago last Sunday, and by "old" I mean 96 years but with all his faculties intact, which makes him a natural wonder you could exhibit on the carnival circuit for two bucks a head, children under ten admitted free with a parent: SEE MAN BORN ON DAY TITANIC WENT DOWN -- HE TALKS, HE MAKES SENSE.
A generation of political cowards and how they grew
"We came by our miracles easier than we were able to manage them," Fred Friendly and Walter Cronkite once wrote of the 1960s. The same is true of every decade since then and I often think of how the frame of reference of generations changes rapidly.
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