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Keeping Score: Duende or not Published: 12/18/2020 5:55:28 PM Modified: 12/18/2020 5:55:15 PM Good morning! Back in the day when kids stood on street corners hawking newspapers, Boston sports fans regularly turned to an erudite columnist named George Frazier. Educated at Boston Latin and Harvard, Frazier wrote for the Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and later for Esquire and Life magazine. In Boston he coined the term “duende” for a level of class attained by few people or places. Ted Williams had it, but Stan Musial did not. Celtics center Bill Russell had it, Wilt Chamberlain did...

Richmond, virginia and began his journalism career as a reporter at the "springfield union" massachusetts and moved to the "washington post" and eventually to the "new york herald-tribune" he attained natural populist. he was well known for his attire which he called neopretentious. he walked the streets of new york in a signature three-piece suit, tom wolfe, the man william f. buckley jr. called the most skillful writer in america died this week at 88. jon meachum, so much to say about tom wolfe going through the titles, "electric cool-aid acid test" "bonfire of the vanities." talk about the ...