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Photograph caption dated January 9, 1960 reads, "Refuses to retire - Thomas O. 'Tom' Fry, 80-year-old 'retiree' who refuses to retire, loads copies of Valley Times into his car on his 80th birthday. Happily busy as 'newspaperboy,' Fry said he once knew a man who 'worried himself to death, really. He was always fussing about something, and he only lived to be 65.'"
Valley Times (Firm) Valley Times (Firm)--Employees Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles Birthdays--California--Los Angeles Older men--California--Los Angeles Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Newspapers North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs
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