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...city editor of Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman read a Page One feature story in the Times, the Oklahoman's afternoon sister-paper, and smelled a "helluva good story." The Times (circ. 114,870) told about an elderly couple whose little country home had been sold at a public sale for $1.13 because they owed that much in taxes-which they didn't even know about. City Editor , Ralph Sewell showed the clip to Reporter Bill Van Dyke. "Bill," said he, "they didn't name the so-and-so who got the property...
...dewy-eyed, I hereby recommend that everyone become a war correspondent. True, there are occasional discomfitures, sometimes made of lead and steel, but by and large, and I'm serious, it's a remarkable opportunity for good descriptive writing. And as in newspaper work anywhere, you get a helluva lot better picture of what's going on out here than anyone can get from reading the censored reports. Finally, you know, every war correspondent always writes a book when he gets home and makes half a million bucks...
...Helluva Lot More. Last week when The Croaker left for good to attend to his private practice in San Rafael and the orange and lemon trees on his ten-acre place at nearby Fairfax, he turned his cons over to a medical staff of 13 doctors and four nurses, plus a host of part-time specialists. "They get," he says, "a damn sight better attention than I could afford for myself. It's a helluva lot more than most of 'em deserve...
...Somewhat watered down from the stage version: New York, New York ("A helluva town...
Sneath kept trying. To the master of another distinguished school he wrote: "You will doubtless remember old Tubby Sneath-well, it will give you a helluva shock, you old bounder, because last year I took the headship here . . . Listen, Stinker, quite seriously, Selhurst is having a beano for its 300th anniversary on June 19. Could you come down, old boy, and give us a sermon on the Sunday?" Returned the headmaster's secretary, on the distinguished man's behalf: "Obviously not meant...