A LIFETIME'S WORTH OF LIVES AND TIMES.Byline: Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
It's been a wonderful trip down memory lane, putting together this special collector's edition of some of my favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. columns. Daily newspaper columnists are notorious for forgetting their yesterdays and thinking only about tomorrow's column, so this little sidetrip revisiting nearly 3,000 columns I've written over the last 14 years has been a lot like rummaging through the closet and getting out the old high school yearbook. Most of the pictures and words bring back smiles and wonderful memories. Others, you want to forget. Someone once asked me how long it takes to write a newspaper column. ''The good ones take two hours,`` I told him. ''The bad ones take eight.`` These are some of the two hour columns. I wish I could bring you more of them because there are some truly wonderful people and stories I've had to leave out because of space limitations. Hopefully, though, we'll be able to revisit with them the next time around. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , sit back, relax, and enjoy reading again the columns of some of the Valley's special people and stories that have touched all our lives. DENNIS NOTES Dennis McCarthy has been named ''Best Columnist`` in California three times by the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and 1996 Best Columnist in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. by the Los Angeles Press Club, which just goes to show you there's no accounting for taste. Dennis McCarthy is married with four children - three grown and on their own, and one teen-ager still at home drawing a modest allowance when he doesn't get too lippy. Dennis McCarthy is always on the lookout for in search of; looking for. See also: Lookout good columns. If you've got one that won't get him sued or beaten up, give him a call at (818) 713-3749. In 25 years as a journalist, Dennis McCarthy has had to issue only one ''correction`` on a story he has written, but it was a doozy doo·zy or doo·zie n. pl. doo·zies Slang Something extraordinary or bizarre: "Among the delicious names taken by, or given to, minor political parties in the United States . . . . He buried a guy who was still alive. Dennis McCarthy was a member of the California National Guard The California National Guard is the component of the United States National Guard in the U.S. state of California. It comprises both Army and Air National Guard components. in Glendale, and not once in his six years of service did enemy aircraft ever make it east of Burbank. Dennis McCarthy became a journalist not to save the world or unearth corruption. He became a journalist because the hours were good and there's no heavy lifting. It took Dennis McCarthy seven years to graduate from college - CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge class of '72 - which just goes to show you anyone can make it if they just hang in there long enough. Daily News Editor David Butler says Dennis McCarthy is the most talented, devoted, hard hitting, compassionate and thorough newspaperman he has ever had the privilege of working with. McCarthy agrees. CAPTION(S): 7 Photos Photo: (1--Cover--Color) TOUCHING our LIVES Dennis McCarthy shares a selection of his favorite columns (2) no caption (Dennis McCarthy) David R. Crane/Daily News (3--7) no caption (Mary and Melissa Stone, Marty and Marilyn Aaronson, Richard Donato, Lexie Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , Diana Peplow) |
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