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Sportswriter high: how my alma mater conquered New York in the sixties.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-MAY-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sportswriter high: how my alma mater conquered New York in the sixties.(The Cheap Seats: BRYAN CURTIS POPS OFF ABOUT SPORTS)

Article Excerpt
New York City, 1964. Our heroes, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake, are waiting for the Time-Life coffee cart to make its morning trek through the offices of Sports Illustrated. It was only a few hours ago that Dan and Bud, sportswriters extraordinaire, finished their nocturnal tour of Manhattan: Toots Shor's, P.J. Clarke's, Elaine's, a river of scotch and water running between them. It was at Elaine's--or was it Clarke's?--that they ran into our heroine, Liz Smith, who was working for both Sports Illustrated and Cosmopolitan. Now, as anyone who has lived in Manhattan can tell you, seeing three native Texans together is not alarming. These days, such confabs are even known to happen in Brooklyn. But what was remarkable about Dan and Bud and Liz was that they all arrived here, at the penthouse floor of magazine journalism, by way of the very same Fort Worth high school.

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