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When he isn't off on some twentieth century crusade, Coffin tries to spend about four hours a day dispensing hard-headed advice to those who seek his counsel. He also thinks a lot. Early this summer he found himself "kind of in a funk" thinking about Vietnam...
...Wilfred J. Funk's listing of the ten most beautiful words in the English language [June 11] was a challenge to use them all in one short sentence. "The luminous mist rose from the murmuring brook at the hush of dawn with a melody like a tranquil lullaby of golden chimes...
...Depression. Sampling only those people wealthy enough to have phones gave an inaccurate cross-section of voters. After the election returns were in, the Digest was denounced by press and pollsters alike; it soon folded. But in 1948, when the pollsters predicted a Dewey victory over Truman, Funk enjoyed a belated revenge. "I do not want to seem to be malicious, but 1 can't help but get a good chuckle out of this...
Despite a lifelong devotion to language, Funk had no use for stylistic precision. "Let's throw the old textbooks out the window," he once wrote, "along with the words correct and incorrect, because there's really no such thing as grammar, but only an ever-changing language pattern formed by everyday usage...
Died. Wilfred John Funk, 83, master wordsmith and retired president of Funk & Wagnalls publishing house; of arteriosclerosis; in Montclair, N.J. (see PRESS...