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My Ears Are Bent

By Dan Frank, Joseph Mitchell, Sheila McGrath

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In the fall of 1929 a young man from a small farming town in the swamp country of North Carolina arrived in New York City. Because of a preternatural inaptitude for mathematics, he had failed to re...

No hurry to get home

By Emily Hahn

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My Ears Are Bent

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Famed New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, as a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, interviewed fan dancers, street evangelists, voodoo conjurers, not to mention a lady boxer who also happe...

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