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William Gaither
William Gaither is a trigger-happy Durham writer whose work also appears regularly in the WDBS Guide.
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Long Ride Into The Sunset
So it is that my attention is drawn to Ronald Reagan and George Wallace as they go through their spirited bicentennial hustles in an effort to become top banana.
June 1976
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
From The People Who Brought You Law An’ Order
In his unceasing quest to keep this country great by returning himself to office in November, Gerald Ford has been making some very troubling noises about national security lately. Initially, many of us were willing to regard speeches of this sort as little more than political necessity; a Republican candidate paying homage to the more rigid, “spare the rod, spoil the Dow Jones” spirits in the conservative camp.
May 1976
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Culpable Cadaver
The author of an article I recently read took up the task of listing the twenty worst news stories of 1975. Despite the evidence produced it was a very amusing business, as indeed, any post-mortem of such atrocious fare would have to be to make it palatable.
April 1976
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Somethyme, It’s The Right Time
Living in a college town has always seemed to be one of the more subtle and better-natured forms of masochism. In its positive and lighter sense this desire for pain manifests itself in the form of cheap, old movies, free umbrellas and unmatched gloves in any lost-and-found worth finding, saunas for the Nordics, free toilet paper for the light-fingered, and the Perkins Library world famous collection of necrobilia on the Dukes of Durham.
February 1976
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