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- <title>
- Sep. 25, 1989: Died:William ("Fishbait") Miller
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 25, 1989 Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 61
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- <p> DIED. William ("Fishbait") Miller, 80, folksy, obsequious
- doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives for 24 years;
- in Greensboro, N.C. Miller, who got his nickname as a child
- because he was so small, had an eccentric approach to his
- duties. He claimed he helped Democratic members by sanding his
- fingertips so that he could recognize their names by touch on
- the metal disks drawn to determine office assignments. His 1977
- memoir "Fishbait" was laced with tales of drunken, lecherous
- lawmakers who found themselves "with their tail in a crack."
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- </body></article>
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