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“Ya gotta be a juggler to woik in dis racket,” a senior-staff powerhouse named Frosty Sloane informed me after I had landed my first job in a competitive marketplace, back around 1965. “I thought we were selling shoes,” I answered him. Which of course we were. I had a fleeting mental picture of some Ed…
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Roy Thomas returns to Conan!
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Looking up our own
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Letterman Settles With WGA
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