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Russell Baker

(1925 — ), US columnist & journalist

Americans like fat books and thin women.

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(1925-- ) U.S. columnist Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks […] www.english-slang.com

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