Obituaries by Molly Ivins

“If Cliff couldn’t build it himself, he’d go buy whatever we needed from a junkyard and fix that. He was a specialist in the naval art of jury-rigging whatever was needed. Who among the regular visitors to the old Observer office will forget the screwdriver-through-the-hasp that served as the handle on the ancient refrigerator that Cliff had resurrected, and painted sky-blue, to store our precious supply of Lone Star?”

Read Online

Molly Ivins, in “A Long Shadow: Remembering the Life and Work of Cliff Olofson,” Texas Observer, January 26, 1996, accessed July 26, 2016, http://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1996/01/26#page=20.

Also Published In

Molly Ivins, “The Person Who Kept the Texas Observer Running,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 19, 1995.

Molly Ivins, “The Person Who Kept the Texas Observer Running,” in You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You (New York: Vintage Books, 1999), 227-30.