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Life columnist recalls wartime duties and curing travel woes
Ursula Smith, a retired Mountain Democrat editor from El Dorado Hills, shares on road life as a traveling troubleshooter for NY photo studios. She details air raid wardens duties, ferry rides to Staten Island, postwar trials, and a year of studio assignments across the East and Midwest, including Oklahoma City and Denver.
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