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In Memoriam: Lowell May

Kingsley Clarke

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Hard Crackers editor Lowell May died at his Denver home on the morning of December 19. Born in 1949, he grew up under harsh conditions on a farm near Lorimer, Iowa. He went to high school ...

Three barbers working furiously… and a fourth murdered

Kingsley Clarke

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It has become a tradition in Chicago for black barbers to give free haircuts to neighborhood schoolboys during the last days before school commences. (Chicago Public Schools open Tuesday.) I walked by the neighborhood barber shop ...

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BOTH KINDS

Kingsley Clarke

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By Kingsley Clarke Adel, Iowa 1986 Frankly, I cannot recall whether or not I have actually had a Bud Light. In 1986 I went back to Adel, Iowa, for my twenty-fifth high school class reunion. Adel was ...

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