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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 19990401
Author:Victor Lewis-SMITH

ANTON Chekhov - that laugh-a-minute, happy-go-lucky geezer who briefly earned a living as a hack on a national daily - once remarked that "columnar journalism is more difficult and miserable a task than dissecting the sex organs of a flea". True enough, but he should have counted himself lucky that he didn't work (as I once did) for a local paper run by a pompous deputy editor who was slightly to the right of Genghis Khan. The man in question was called John Potts, and he once telephoned me and went utterly berserk because my copy was half an hour late in arriving.

So I phoned him back a few ...

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