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Remembering 'Captain' Neil Cohen, Summer Camp Counselor And Sage

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Neil Cohen, who first handed Simon The New York Times one summer at Camp Indianola. Cohen was his camp counselor, and went on to become an attorney and law professor.

I read my first when I was 12 and my summer camp counselor woke me up to put the paper in my hands. "The competition," he said with a smile. I was editor of the , a small sheet on which we printed the scores of

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