NEWSPAPER DAYS: The flying Underwood
Jim Fisher never looked to me like a newspaperman. He looked like a Kansas rancher. While most career journalists are prone to corpulence (too many donuts, too much time sitting at a keyboard), Jim was...
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The Kansas City Star, 18th and Grand, KCMO On a sunny June day in 1969 I climbed the steps of the Kansas City Star building, passed the bronze relief portrait of founder William Rockhill Nelson that...
View ArticleNewspaper Days: Ken Paik — Bigger than life. And cruder, too.
For a Korean, Ken Paik was a very big guy…about six feet tall, I think. I’m not sure about that. It’s possible that he was only, say, 5-9 and just seemed taller because of the way he filled the space...
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