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  This was a house ad for the BU News in around 1975. Once a week we'd work overnight producing about a 16 page tabloid using the facilities of Benwell Publishing (which I worked for later when it was known as Morgan-Grampian USA) in Brookline. Pam Miller did the typing on the magical machine known as the IBM Selectric (a typewriter),  which printed onto photo paper, that we cut to form columns via Exacto Knife, run through a hot waxer, and press on template pages....And that night, with no editors around, it turned out there was a hole in one column to fill, and I said I can do it.  Clipped off from the bottom of the clip is the signatory for this 'join the News' sales pitch which is the character "Dr. Frank Kafka." Not the Harvard Lampoon (or Crimson) but a workable satire on the memes of the time. This was a complicated age in which we lived and "simplistic" solutions were not the answer to the question. I assume the drawing was done at the same time....

Had opportunity to work on roof maintenance on the Research Tower for a week or two back in the day. 14 stories high -... Posted by Jack Vaughan on  Saturday, February 20, 2021

Perseverance is alive on the surface of Mars. #CountdownToMars , #Mars2020 pic.twitter.com/0LX7PXzlOT — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) February 18, 2021

Stayed here when it was new. Covered the Artificial Intelligence World Conference - Former Trump Plaza Casino Implosion https://youtu.be/y2civVS802U via @YouTube

"Electrifying"-Galvani Taking the long way home here… I was often sickly as a boy and spent days in my room – much of it reading the encyclopedia randomly. That, and listening to the radio. They had radio story tellers back then, in effect something like the podcast today. For example, a properly erudite fellow in Chicago on WBBM (35000W) – I cant imagine his name – [was it Taking the long way home here… I was often sicky as a boy and spent days in my room – much of it reading the encyclopedia randomly. That, and listening to the radio. They had radio story tellers back then, in effect something like the podcast today. For example, a properly erudite fellow in Chicago on WBBM – I cant imagine his name – was it Mal Bellairs? - Paul Gibson?- would come on at lunch time for 15 minutes and recount an event or person’s life – maybe a figure from this day in history. And I found his stories often mesmerizing. I vaguely recall a life of Charlemagne. I pretty distinctly recall a tell...

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