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A portrait of Mencken as a young newspaperman. He worked for the Baltimore Morning Herald before moving on the Sun.(Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
A portrait of Mencken as a young newspaperman. He worked for the Baltimore Morning Herald before moving on the Sun.(Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)