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Former Philly Daily News editor
Zack Stalberg recalls
Rick Selvin apologizing during his job interview in 1980. "I usually wear a necktie to these interviews, but my tie was frozen in the trunk of my car when it got wet and when I tried to put it on, it broke." Stalberg hired him on the spot. Selvin died this week of multiple organ failure. ||
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