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Journalist Al Smith Writes Autobiography

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Published November 6, 2011 at 6:31 PM EST
Al Smith's new book "WORDSMITH: My Life in Journalism", photographed in his home in Lexington, Ky., Friday, November, 04, 2011. Al Smith, a veteran news reporter, dedicated the book to his wife, Martha Helen Smith.
Charles Bertram
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Lexington Herald-Leader
Al Smith's new book "WORDSMITH: My Life in Journalism", photographed in his home in Lexington, Ky., Friday, November, 04, 2011. Al Smith, a veteran news reporter, dedicated the book to his wife, Martha Helen Smith.

On the many Friday nights Al Smith hosted the public-affairs TV show Comment on Kentucky, he regularly took reporters who were guests on the show to dinner afterward and regaled them with his life stories. Smith, who will turn 85 on Jan. 9, has compiled many of those stories in a new book, Wordsmith: My Life in Journalism.

 
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