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Big Tom is Go!

SATURDAY (April 17th) 

As of today, I have worked for four decades as a professional writer/newspaperman. (I’m experimenting with words other than ‘journalist’, since that word has become so rancid. ‘Newspaperman’ has a nice archaic ring to it.) This day 40 years ago I had my first paid article published in Hot Press. I was off, or so it se…

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