very ones complicating his transition to computerization. Jim Mahony
was the folksy, family-oriented man that his column suggested. Mahony
knew steelworkers as well as politicians and businessmen, and to
maintain that network of friends, even in a small town, takes time.
Jim didn’t like working late at the office, boning up on computers; he
would rather be with his family or some of the average people he wrote
about.