In my constant search for an honor I might decline, I announced some years ago that I didn't want a service area on the New Jersey Turnpike named after me. It seems unlikely that the Turnpike Authority, which had honored a number of Garden State luminaries in that manner, would turn to an ordinary driver who is not from New Jersey, but I thought that nipping the idea in the bud was the sort of thing a prudent citizen did in preparing for his eventual demise. So I was surprised to learn last week that Joe DiMaggio--a man who raised preparation...
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