On 3/19/14, 11:48 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:30:16 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

"Screw up there, and we'll send you out to the South Dakota bureau."

If that was Rapid City, you could do a lot worse. The Black Hills
country is beautiful.



I don't remember where the AP bureau in South Dakota was back then, but,
obviously, the boss didn't consider it a rewarding posting.

For a reporter, West Virginia was great. I got to cover a couple of
really huge disasters, some important air pollution hearings, bigtime
politics, a national golf tournament (a giggle, because I knew and know
nuttin' about golf...but I did get to interview Sam Snead and his TV
weathergirl girlfriend) at the Greenbrier, and appear regularly on a
local version of Meet the Press, have a minor role in an Underground
Movie, and become close friends with an actual Hatfield and his wife, a
former Republican governor, and a large number of really interesting
characters. I had an employer-paid membership at a downtown dining and
drinking establishment called the Elephant Walk. I recently learned a
version of it reopened after being gone for decades...

http://tinyurl.com/pdyfm4c


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