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Ten Years Ago

January 19, 2006

Commercial Club has a new fund raiser – selling a book of Ed Lawrence’s most memorable columns that were published in The Times between 1946 and 1960. Lawrence, a long-time resident of this vicinity, authored a weekly column in those years following World War II, then pared back his efforts to covering the editor’s chair when then-publishers Carl and Virginia Dilts were on vacation. Lawrence commissioned a compilation of some of his “This ‘N That” columns in 2005, with a first printing of about 200 copies. He donated app...