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We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.

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Malcolm Forbes
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: August 19
Died: 1990
Died: February 24
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Journalist
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New Jersey
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Malcolm S. Forbes
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