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" An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. "
New
Person
Day
" As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule. "
School
Vacation
Morning
" 'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday. "
Game
Random
Sunday
" By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job. "
Football
Team
Newspaper
" Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career. "
Career
Start
City
" I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13. "
Wanted
Anything
Ever
" I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government. "
School
Me
Government
" My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years. "
Me
Father
Week
" My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me. "
Me
School
High School
" What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? "
Society
Say
Dead
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