I haven't given much thought to David Von Drehle in about 25 years or so, but recently I saw that an article he wrote was the cover story in that week's Time Magazine. Von Drehle graduated from the University of Denver the year before I started working at the DU Bookstore. I never met him, but his mother worked at DU's library and used to come into the store quite a bit. At that time David Von Drehle worked at the Miami Herald. His mother was very proud of him, and told me his ambition was to be a political writer. Since he was from Colorado, where Gary Hart was about to launch his presidential campaign, the Herald was planning to let him cover the campaign. Then Hart was discovered by reporters on the boat "Monkey Business, " in the company of model Donna Rice, and Von Drehle's dream of covering the 1988 presidential campaign evaporated. It does not appear Von Drehle let that keep him back. Soon afterward he became the Washington Post's New York Bureau Chief, and later went on to become Editor at Large at Time Magazine. I wonder if Von Drehle will be at University of Denver Alumni Night at the Colorado Rockies game this July? Time to network!
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