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A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

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Jimmy Cannon
Age: 64 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 10
Died: 1973
Died: December 5
Journalist
Writer
Boyhood
Prolonged
Entombed
Sportswriter

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