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In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
Calvin Trillin
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Calvin Trillin
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
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Kansas City
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Calvin Marshall Trillin
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