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 | | Born and raised on St. Paul's East Side, Wally Wakefield graduated from high school in 1948, worked on the Great Northern Railroad for a decade, and spent a year fighting in the Korean War before attending the University of Minnesota on the GI Bill. |
 | | He was an elementary-school teacher for 29 years, and after raising five kids and retiring, he decided it would be fun to work part-time for a community newspaper, writing human-interest stories and tallying high school sports scores. |
 | | According to court records, the piece asserted that school officials had decided not to renew Weinberger's contract for an 11th year because they'd had enough of his "temper, inappropriate comments, and foul language," which people claimed he uses to intimidate parents, teachers, and players. |
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