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A column for fun

02/21/2011
Bob TippeeEditorThis column exists mostly for fun. Journally Speaking features are wonderfully fun to write and, when done right, equally fun to read.In this space, OGJ editors take turns addressing subjects that would be out of place elsewhere in the magazine. They write more breezily than would be appropriate in serious news and technical articles.OGJ Editor Henry Ralph set the light tone for Journally Speaking when he invented the feature in 1948 and wrote nearly every installment of it until he retired 20 years later. Ralph, who died in 1983, even invented a popular foil, the curmudgeonly Churly McCaustic, through whom he made painfully serious points in humorously human ways.Although...
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