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90-Year-Old Reporter May Outlast San Francisco Chronicle

NYT: It would be hard to find an older newspaper reporter than David Perlman, the 90-year-old science writer for The San Francisco Chronicle. It would also be hard to find a more youthful one. Mr. Perlman’s 78-year newspaper career began at age 12 when he started his junior high school paper with a mimeograph machine. His tenure at The Chronicle began in 1940 when was hired as a copy boy. He still works full-time in his cubicle in the corner of the paper’s city room.


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