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Fifty-Five-Year Stint

27-Jun-08

On June 19, 1953, Mario DiCrocco, four years transported to America from Italy began a career at The Advance, Staten Island’s longstanding daily newspaper. It’s been fifty-five years, a span that saw his work evolve from lead and ink, to paste-up and film, and then to keystrokes via computer pagination.
The composing room where [...]

Glowing Glowing Gone

10-Jul-02

I ran into Walt Clyde Frazier the other day. Well…maybe it was the other way around. Walt (for those of you who don’t follow basketball) was an all-star guard for the New York Knicks during the late sixties and seventies. Now, he does Knick color commentary on cable TV alongside veteran play-by-play man, Marv Albert.
I [...]