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"I bought a book on memory And eagerly embraced it I meant to read it right away But seem to have misplaced it -From ""It's Here Somewhere"" As a youth, Jim Swinehart was drawn to the usual adventure books, but also to the humor writing of Mark Twain, James Thurber, Erma Bombeck, and many others. During his high school years, he learned about various aspects of life by working as a farm laborer, newspaper reporter, lifeguard, camp counselor, photographer, dining hall staffer, drugstore salesperson, and assistant to a city clerk. After college graduation and Army service, he spent 16 years on university faculties and four decades as a communications consultant, helping to design national campaigns on health and safety issues. His academic and professional work has appeared in books, a dozen scientific journals, and as published testimony for a Senate committee and a Presidential Commission. He hopes that this book of (mostly) light verse, unlike his previous writing, will elicit smiles."

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Dr. James W. Swinehart is a social psychologist who has worked for the U.S. Army (Counter Intelligence Corps, Korea); Washington University (sociology department); University of Michigan (Survey Research Center, School of Public Health, Highway Safety Research Institute); Children's Television Workshop; TV networks (CBS, NBC, PBS); numerous federal agencies (e.g., Social Security Administration, National Cancer Institute, Federal Trade Commission, Library of Congress); national nonprofit organizations (e.g., American Medical Association, National Safety Council, Association for Consumer Research); and other similar groups. He has served on the boards of several public interest organizations. In addition to teaching social science at universities, he has taught swimming and water safety for the Red Cross and a college, and English as a second language overseas. He has traveled in 47 states and 20 countries, sometimes by moped or hitchhiking. A published writer and photographer, his greatest pride is his two sons and four grandchildren.

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