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I always love it when a small paper wins. When I was growing up in the Bronx, the editor of the Riverdale Press - a neighborhood rag - kept submitting his columns for a Pulitzer. We laughed and laughed at his ego. He finally won.

Gene Weingarten

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Gene Weingarten
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 2
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