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Studs Terkel is still going strong at 93 years of age. It must be all the cigars. Here is an excerpt of a recent interview with him in The Sun (PDF file).
I've read several of his books over the years, most memorably The Good War and his best-known book, Working. He's an old-time pinko of the best kind, never afraid to tell people right to their faces what he thinks is wrong with them.
I literally bumped into Studs one time in Chicago when I was a graduate student. I was walking downtown, headed to the Chicago Public Library on some academic wild goose chase, and paying more attention to looking around than at where I was going. Crossing over the river by the Sun-Times building, I brushed shoulders with an old geezer in a trenchcoat, his wispy hair caught in the breeze. "Oops, sorry," I said, but got no reply. He kept right on going, walking at a pretty good clip, much faster than I was going, and it took me a good 10 or 15 seconds to realize that it was him. Not my best "brush with fame" story, I guess, but it's all I've got for you.
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