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So Respectable
By 1980 Ian Abercrombie had parlayed chance, talent, hard work into a perch from which he soared. He yoked himself to the school newspaper just long enough to synthesize the three major reporting manual styles. (Chicago. Times. AP.) Quickly frustrated with school editors whose ‘lazy white man’ allegiances outweighed merit, he eventually bluffed his way into column inches on T-town’s morning paper, The Territorial. While locals who’d made their journo bones ably staffed the periodical, its...