Saturday, November 1, 2008

Studs Terkel

The cigar smokin' Chicagoan, radio and tv man, author, conversationalist, and friend to non-famous vagabonds everywhere, has died at the age of 96.

Like Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, who was destined to be wherever a cop was beating up a guy, Studs documented the struggle of ordinary men wherever there was a picket, or a petition to be signed and defended.

~phil

4 Comments:

Blogger Pamela Terry and Edward said...

Did you hear Garrison Keillor's tribute to him on last night's Prairie Home Companion? It was wonderful.

11/02/2008 11:13 AM  
Blogger Pamela Terry and Edward said...

I heard Garrison Keillor's tribute to him last night on Prairie Home Companion. It was wonderful.

11/02/2008 11:15 AM  
Blogger phil said...

Yes, I did, PT&E.
Appropriate to a Woody Guthrie tune.

11/02/2008 11:45 AM  
Blogger G said...

Good tribute Phil! I've got "Working" on hold at the library. I've been told to read it for too many years without doing so.

11/04/2008 8:33 AM  

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