Via the Modesto Kid, William Zantzinger has died.
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6 comments
January 10, 2009 at 7:41 am
drip
The indictment of Mayor Sheila Dixon knocked the Zantziger story off the front page of The Sun a periodical that used to be a newspaper. Here’s the local story. The money quote: “[Dylan]‘s just a scum bag of the earth. I should have sued him and put him in jail. [The song is] a total lie.” Two local geographical notes: Charles County, south of the District of Columbia, is where Booth ran for shelter a hundred years before. Washington County is in that little neck of western Maryland in between Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Both were a full day’s trip from Baltimore in 1963.
January 10, 2009 at 7:52 am
Vance
I see Christopher Ricks is sure it’s “diamond ring finger”, without the D. (I hadn’t read him in this mode before.)
January 10, 2009 at 8:30 am
The Modesto Kid
Thanks for pointing that out, drip. The Sun‘s obituary is here.
January 10, 2009 at 12:02 pm
drip
MK, I tried to link to the story. The link is there at “Here’s the local story”, but doesn’t show up in blue. Is that a glitch or did I screw up the HTML?
January 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm
The Modesto Kid
I dunno. Looks like Sheila Dixon’s troubles are not limited to being indicted.
January 10, 2009 at 7:24 pm
ron
I’m really surprised the guy wasn’t a personal aid to Chaney.