A collection of this New York Times columnist's work was titled "Poor Russell's Almanac"
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Russell Baker - Wikipedia  Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1982). He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and also ... He wrote a sequel to his autobiography in 1989, called The Good Times.
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In the Cards by Ronald Wallace | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison ...  Aug 14, 2006 ... at the table one last time, ... how she's amazed by each new day, ... He spent the later part of his life working on a book of philosophy that he ... He is the author of many books of essays, including Poor Russell's Almanac (1972), ... a humor column called "The Observer" for The New York Times and was one...
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Russell Baker | American journalist and humorist | Britannica.com  American newspaper columnist, author, humorist, and political satirist, who used good-natured ... Alternative Title: Russell Wayne Baker ... for Panic (1964), Poor Russell's Almanac (1972), and further collections of his columns. ... Baker's final Observer column for the New York Times appeared on Christmas Day, 1998.
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Observer Observed - The New York Times  Jan 30, 1972 ... Baker, Russell: Book Poor Russell's Almanac by R Baker revd by I Shenker. ... Mine was a time when every young man in college wanted not to work but to write. ... grounds that nobody had read anything under that title for 30 years. ... The metronomic quality of a columnist's life is like Chinese water torture.
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Strawberries by Edwin Morgan | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison ...  Aug 14, 2003 ... Poem: "Strawberries," by Edwin Morgan from Collected Poems (Carcanet Press) ... she spent several years as a single mother, working as a secretary. ... He is the author of many books of essays, including Poor Russell's Almanac (1972), ... It was one of the first humor columns the New York Times had ever...
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The New York Times Magazine mettre  jour - Dictionnaires  Circulation, 1,623,697 per week (as part of Sunday paper) ... The New York Times Magazine is a supplement to the Sunday The New York ... Its first issue was published on September 6, 1896, and contained the first ... Title, Artist, Start Date, End Date, # of Chapters .... Frontline  India Today  Outlook  Tehelka  The Week.
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Russell Baker | American journalist and humorist | Britannica.com  Baker's final Observer column for the New York Times appeared on Christmas ... The "good times," as he defined them, occurred at the start of his career, and .... to amateur sitcom critics attempting to describe the comic genius that is Larry.
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New York Times Company Records. Adolph S. Ochs papers - Archives  Sulzberger became the publisher of the New York Times after Ochs' death in 1935 ... His nearly daily letters to her provide descriptions of life in New York City at .... Chattanooga (Tenn.) ... 1891, 1896-1899, 1904-1906, 1909, 1912-1933 ...... to buy and develop property at Moccasin Bend, near Chattanooga, into a model farm...
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Featured Author: Larry McMurtry - The New York Times  In This Feature; Reviews of Larry McMurtry's Earlier Books; Reviews of Movies Based on Larry McMurtry's Writing; Profiles About Larry McMurtry; Book Excerpts.
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Benjamin Franklin < Authors < Literature 1991 < American History ...  Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack, begun in 1732 and published for many years, ... Sometimes he creates anecdotes to illustrate his points: "A little Neglect may breed great Mischief. ... Written to advise his son, it covers only the early years.
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Winners of Pulitzer Prizes - The New York Times  Published: April 18, 1986 ... The Denver Post won for its series on missing children, ''The Truth About ... He was the paper's coal writer at the time he was assigned to work on the ... While he spent much of his early newspaper career as a freelance ... Queens, began his column in 1963 for the defunct New York Herald...
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Russell Baker - The Baltimore Literary Heritage Project  Russell Baker, The New York Times Magazine, 1973 ... who wrote one of the most widely read newspaper columns in the United States. ... Fortunately, he won a scholarship and began attending Hopkins in 1942, but he put ... He won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1979 and a second Pulitzer in 1983, this time for his...
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: The New Yorker  Additionally, the magazine has added more dedicated issues--most recently the "Food" issue, .... First the poems, then the Talk of the Town, and then... who knows? .... I think of the regular reading of The New Yorker as a form of therapy to ..... you'll waste reading through every entry in the "Goings on about Town" section.
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The New York Times - Mashable  The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper founded and ... Nicknamed "the Old Gray Lady", and long regarded within the industry as a national...
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Shining Path - The New York Times  News about the Shining Path. Commentary and archival information about the Shining Path from The New York Times.
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Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968 - archives.nypl.org -- Search ...  Photographs is a collection of negatives, contact sheets, slides, and prints ... Arthur Hays Sulzberger was the publisher of xxThe New York Timesxx from 1935 until 1961 and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company from 1961 until ... Orvil Dryfoos (1912-1963) was a newspaper executive and the publisher of...
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J! Archive - Show #4844, aired 2005-10-06  In 1889 a daily New York news summary called the "Customers' Afternoon Letter" became this publication. Final scores: Jason, Helen, Brendan.
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About Tom Wolfe  In 1962 he became a reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune and, in addition, one of the two staff writers (Jimmy Breslin was the other) of New York magazine, which ... a collection of articles about the flamboyant Sixties written for New York and ... which included his well-known essay "The Me Decade and the Third Great...
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THE BIG CHANGE - Project Gutenberg Australia  In its leading editorial of January 1, the New York Times sounded an ... On the Lower East Side there were poverty, filth, wretchedness on a scale ... we must first go back to 1900 and look about us--at the scene, the conditions of life, the people. ...... A. Riis in his memorable book, How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - World History International  Although he went to school only two years, Ben was fond of books and spent much of ... publication was 'Poor Richard's Almanack', which first appeared in 1732. ... Soon 10,000 copies were sold every year. ... Franklin believed the schools of his time were out of date. .... Often members of the convention disagreed strongly.
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The Years with Ross (Perennial Classics): James Thurber ...  Editorial Reviews. From the Publisher. 8 1-hour cassettes --This text refers to the Hardcover ... Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker .... so he was often uncouth, but he created one of the USA's outstanding magazines. .... I like Thurber but I though he was snippy about "The New Yorker" so I didn't enjoy the...