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A MERE 60 YEARS AGO, at the front end of my love-hate affair with the published word, I went to work for my first "real" newspaper, an actual evening daily willing to pay a salary-like sum for my dubious services. The ...
Mort Persky has been an editor for newspapers in New York, Miami, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, and he shared a Pulitzer for his editing at the Detroit Free Press. He was also editor and vice president of the national Sunday supplement Family Weekly, and was editorial director for new publications at Playboy Enterprises, Inc.