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...starting fee of $1 a stanza; of a heart ailment; in Chicago. His idea blossomed into a service called the Poet's Study, which circulated Stevenson's booklets to more than 200 mortuaries, which in turn passed canned condolences to mourners. His own self-authored epitaph closes: "Ah, there's not a thing to fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 26, 1952 | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I had to do it, and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Ariz.: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Answer Man | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...Robin with: "Brush your teeth twice a day!" He might have made a fortune from his annotated anthology, Some Limericks, but its obscenities would have made its open sale a criminal offense in Britain and the U.S. In describing a South Wind character, Douglas carved his own epitaph: "He knew too much, and had traveled too far, to be anything but a hopeless unbeliever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1952 | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Last week, in his three-story house high atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, Clarence Lindner, 62, died of a heart attack. His chief competitor, the San Francisco Chronicle's Editor Paul Smith, provided an epitaph: "I respected Lindner because he outdid me on everything I ever tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Measure of Freedom | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...original Nazi design" received an unexpected guest one day in 1946: the corpse of Hermann Goering, dead by his own hand (cyanide) as the gallows waited for him. After the incinerator had done its work, the ashes were shoveled into a can and dumped on a trash heap. No epitaph was written, but one was deserved: "He Was the Life & Soul of the Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Juvenile Delinquent | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

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