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Martin Luther King. (I know it's not him; just trying to speed things along.
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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Arthur is correct! (In that it's not MLK.)
5. I spent two years at the Mississippi State College for . . . adult people of my sex . . . completed my undergraduate degree in English literature at the University of Wisconsin, then studied advertising at Columbia University. |
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<crickets>
6. After university, I returned to Jackson, took a job at a local radio station, and wrote about Jackson society for the Commercial Appeal, a Memphis newspaper. |
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Alan M Elite user California 436 Posts
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Harper Lee?
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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Not Ms. Lee. But that's a good guess.
7. Two years later I took a job at the Works Progress Administration. I also began hosting meetings for the Night-Blooming Cereus Club. |
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Getting back to Shackleton for a moment: the reason that I knew the name (more or less) is that he had had a case of blended Scotch whisky which was recently discovered.
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Carson McCullough (sp?) I think that's who I'm thinking of --the woman who wrote Member of the Wedding?
Click here to get Gerald Deutsch's Perverse Magic: The First Sixteen Years
All proceeds to Open Heart Magic charity. |
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On Feb 6, 2022, S2000magician wrote: Yes! There is also a commercially produced scotch named after him. I saw a bottle in my local store a couple of years ago and bought one. Unfortunately, I didn't care for it - but the bottle looks great 
My ex-cat was named "Muffin". "Vomit" would be a better name for her. AKA "The Evil Ball of Fur".
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[quote]On Feb 7, 2022, Chessmann wrote:
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On Feb 6, 2022, S2000magician wrote: I know the feeling. I bought a bottle of Caol Ila several years ago and really didn't like it. When I was consulting in Charlotte, NC in 2011/2012, there was a liquor store in South Carolina – literally a quarter mile from the state line – that had tastings every once in a while. That was perfect: I'm now a huge fan of Aberlour A'Bunadh. |
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On Feb 7, 2022, landmark wrote: McCullers. Not she. 8. In 1936 I published "The Death of a Traveling Salesman" in the literary magazine Manuscript, followed by stories in The Sewanee Review and The New Yorker. |
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On Feb 7, 2022, S2000magician wrote: Here's a fascinating article on the scotch found under the ice at Shackleton's hut. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magaz......sky.html
My ex-cat was named "Muffin". "Vomit" would be a better name for her. AKA "The Evil Ball of Fur".
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9. After publishing my first book of short stories, A Curtain of Green, I won a seat on the staff of The New York Times Book Review, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship; these enabled me to travel to France, England, Ireland, and Germany.
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<more crickets>
10. While abroad, I spent some time as a resident lecturer at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, becoming the first person of my sex to be permitted into the hall of Peterhouse College. |
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1782 Posts
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Lillian Hellman?
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Not Lillian.
11. After Medgar Evers was assassinated, I published a story in The New Yorker, "Where Is the Voice Coming From?". I wrote it in first person as the assassin. |
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12. Contemporarily, my name arose in episode 4 of season 1 of the Amazon Prime series Reacher.
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1782 Posts
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Totally at a loss here, Bill. I don't even know who Medgar Evers is.
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Medgar Evers was the first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi.
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13. In 1971, I published a collection of my photographs depicting the Great Depression, titled One Time, One Place.
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1782 Posts
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Is this someone not many people would have heard of?
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