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Article: A fond farewell to The Deanly One: adventures with Kunkel from Miami to AJR.(FULL COURT PRESS)(American Journalism Review)
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- American Journalism Review
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- April 1, 2008
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It all goes back to Tobacco Road.
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Back in 1982 I joined the Miami Herald as associate news editor. My major responsibility was the national report, but I also helped oversee the foreign correspondents and the news desk. Since my wife and daughter weren't moving down from the Philadelphia suburbs until the school year ended, and since I was temporarily living in a room in a guy's garage, I volunteered to work some double shifts to learn about the entire operation.
It was a nightside ritual to make an after-work pilgrimage to the 1800 Club, a venue near the Herald that was exactly what a tropical nightspot should be. But ...