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41 Years Ago
12-10-2018, 01:13 PM
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I liked Crouse's writing style and thought the description of Orlowek's family did a great deal to place him in his own milieu. Crouse, who is now in his 70s, is best known for his book The Boys on the Bus, a rollicking account of the press corp in the 1972 presidential campaign.

The other night, tired of working on a Tarbell article that just won't start, I decided to try and find the original "Unsolved Mysteries" that aired about Booth's alleged escape. Luckily, if that's the term one could use, I found it online. After watching it, I realized that I had spent about 30 or so minutes of my life that I'll never get back. I was immediately reminded of an article that Steve Miller wrote that he once shared with me. It had the headline (approximate...I'm writing this from memory), "How Much C rap Could Robert Stack Stack if Robert Stack Could Stack C rap." The episode was a graphic representation of never letting the facts get in the way of a good story. And yet, Steve's deflation of the nonsense isn't out there to serve as an antidote. More's the pity.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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41 Years Ago - L Verge - 12-09-2018, 08:52 PM
RE: 41 Years Ago - GustD45 - 12-10-2018, 11:14 AM
RE: 41 Years Ago - Gene C - 12-10-2018, 11:28 AM
RE: 41 Years Ago - Rob Wick - 12-10-2018 01:13 PM
RE: 41 Years Ago - L Verge - 12-10-2018, 01:56 PM
RE: 41 Years Ago - Rsmyth - 12-10-2018, 05:44 PM
RE: 41 Years Ago - L Verge - 12-10-2018, 08:26 PM
RE: 41 Years Ago - RJNorton - 12-11-2018, 06:37 AM
RE: 41 Years Ago - L Verge - 12-11-2018, 10:18 AM
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RE: 41 Years Ago - GustD45 - 12-12-2018, 11:58 AM
RE: 41 Years Ago - RJNorton - 12-18-2018, 06:39 AM
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