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Jim Wentz When I was a young, teenage, rookie reporter at the Altoona Mirror in my first job out of high school, I worked with an old-timer named Frank White. White was the telegraph editor — pulling copy from the Associated Press and United Press International telegraph machines and deciding what international and national news would get into print. He was a kindly soul, liked by everyone and possessed a dry, understated wit. White kept a scrapbook of bloopers that found their way into the Mirror over the course of his career. They included convoluted sentences, nonsensical passages and ca...