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Despatch is the soul of business.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Despatch
Business
Soul

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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.
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