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Richard Turner

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My Senior Thesis

It went on for months, this falling asleep at four in the morning in a fiendish cloud of cigarette smoke,


Pulp

Something should be said early on, in this newly-revived column of press clips, about the dean of press clips himself,


In the Bunker

Exam Anecdote A student is taking an exam. Detailed footnotes are required for the essay and he panics. He proceeds


In Another League Now

'Omaha is hot, dry and boring," reads an old Crimson sports page. "The dusty air, blown in off the great


Flush Times for Charles Bronson

U UH, you look a little passive," says Speed, promoter of street fights, peering at Chaney, who wants a job.


How the World Ended

"For it was like the death of a favorite grandmother. A season whose life was beautiful and full and gave


THE SCREEN

Give 'Em Hell, Harry! Ten days ago, after driving all day through dairy lands, north into lakes and woods, we


Turner's Turn

The fan is the most ruthless creature in professional sports, and I'm one, so yesterday morning when I read about


ROCK

It has been said that the modern age offers no more pleasurable rewards than this: driving east, across New Mexico,