It is a well known fact that I was always a big fan of Studs Terkel - the Pulitzer Prize winning author, oral historian, and WFMT radio host. A number of years ago I found a Hemingway poster and mailed it to my friend Bill back in Chicago (the same Bill who once went to Paris to write the Great American Western). Bill was a great Hemingway fan and was so thrilled with the poster, he went down to the WFMT studios and got Studs to autograph the photograph above for me. It was a really nice gesture, especially when you consider that Bill was a stay at home type of guy who never left the suburbs, except in this once case. A short time later Bill's wife Millie contracted breast cancer and passed away soon after. Bill never got over that tragedy and passed away also not too long after. Two good friends gone just like that. Maybe the good really do die young.
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