THE DAY IN 1983 WHEN A FEMALE 'MINNESOTA DAILY' STUDENT NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPHER TOLD ME THAT 'PLAYGIRL' MAGAZINE WAS A GOOD MATCH FOR ME

 It seems like only yesterday when a female "Minnesota Daily" student newspaper photographer and "Minnesota Daily" Transportation Advertising Supplement Guide editor, Donna Turk, stated to me in person in 1983 inside the "Minnesota Daily" newsroom at the University of Minnesota that Donna would not be willing to publish the photo she had been given by a male photographer coworker of hers that showed me standing near a car in Minneapolis that had been demolished in a car accident.

The photo had been taken by "Minnesota Daily" first-rate photographer and University of Minnesota photojournalism student Layne Kennedy, who, like me, was a former resident of Texas.

The assigned photo by Layne had been expected to serve as an accompaniment to a humor column of mine about the automobile accidents, one of them a near-fatal collision, that I had sustained in Florida and in Minnesota.

"The photo of you by 'Minnesota Daily' photographer Layne Kennedy was very provocative and looked more appropriate for 'Playgirl' Magazine," Donna Turk stated to me as her explanation for nixing Layne Kennedy's photo of me for that special advertising supplement to "The Minnesota Daily".