Did you ever get the feeling that some phones were never hung up? Bill Nunnelley can keep you on the phone.

This is so clearly a staged photograph -- there's not even a doodle on that note pad -- and the off-camera stare is just so. For all you know an intern may be hanging onto that phone cord to give things a sense of realism.

Which brings up an interesting question: Will all of the pictures of tomorrow show people holding their cellphone up to their face? Maybe this look has been exchanged for the pecking-away-at-a-text-message pose.

I wonder if that plant is still in his office.

I know the man, he's almost larger than life, physically, but a kind gentleman. He's written two books and countless periodical pieces. Still working, too. We should all be so lucky to do it as well for as long as he has.

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