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• Written while waiting for the Podiatrist, the Ophthalmologist, or was it the Dentist? By: Joe Ball, Publisher

  Published on November 21, 2011.

  I’m a senior citizen in age, not in activities.

  I think I’m one of those who fit the expression, “The senior citizens of today often are like the middle-aged of 20 years ago.”

  It’s good to think that. “Because I fit it.”

  My wife, Sandy, tells me, however, should I be asked “How old are you?,” to just say,” I don’t give my age.”

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• Remembering Gil Spencer Reporter, Editor, Character By: Joe Ball, Publisher

  Published on November 21, 2011.

  F. Gilman Spencer Jr. a former- -and possibly the most memorable- – editor of the Philadelphia Daily News, died June 24, 2011 at the New York University Hospital. He was 85.

  I was a copy boy with Gil Spencer over a seven year period, from 1947 to about 1954, at the Inquirer’s City Desk, on the fourth floor at 400 N. Broad St.

  In those days, the newsroom was an incubator for young people headed towards careers in communications- -especially with newspapers.

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