The sojourn up to T-C to squeeze in some quality holiday family time began uneventfully on Thursday to avoid the holiday traffic. About 40 minutes in, the cell went off. Having forgotten to take it out of the trouser pocket, and remembering that Smoky was ticketing those who drive and work the phone, the cell eventually stopped ringing. Then 10 minutes later same thing. Ring. Ring. Something must be up?
Someone else answered in the car and put the phone to the driver’s ear.
“Duggan just dropped out of therace.” “No...(Fillinthe blank.)” This was bigger than big news and lots of news folks would be tugging the driver’s arm to put something in the can for use on the evening TV broadcast “despite the fact that you are on vacation,” as the news director so graciously framed his request.
