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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Band
Trouble
Friends
Exegesis
Power
Drumming
Great
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Much
Applause
Never
Sympathetic
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