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When a New York Daily News staffer died in 1957, his obituary appeared under his own byline. "Do me one final favor and use this instead of an effusion by somebody else," wrote Lowell Limpus in a message that he had drafted some years before, sealed in an envelope and deposited, under his name, in the News's library...
...court clerks abolish the usual $25 filing fee. At times he writes like a judge: "This breathes of the appellate court's wrath at their lower court brethren." At times he hectors uncooperative court clerks: "You are not the court. You are not God. You are just Charley Limpus." Always he seems more hep on relevant new decisions than many judges. "He's a brilliant man," says Orange County Public Defender W. D. Frederick Jr. "His grasp of case law is phenomenal...
...years as a New York Daily News staffer, Lowell Limpus' byline topped stories that filled 83 fat folders in the paper's morgue. Among them was one that had never been printed. When longtime Reporter (and sometime night city editor) Limpus died of a heart ailment last week at 60, the city desk pulled it out of the files. It was Limpus' obit, and at the top was a note: "Do me one final favor and use this instead of an effusion by somebody else...
...News obliged. True to the newsman's oft-violated creed that newspapermen do not make news, tall, mustached (and sometimes bearded) Lowell Limpus did not mention in his obit many of his best works, such as his 1932 series on Al Capone's flossy life in the Atlanta Penitentiary. Of Limpus, Limpus wrote...
...much fun as I've always gotten out of life. I'm confident I'm off on the greatest adventure of my life; the biggest assignment any newspaperman could have. And now, my friends in the composing room, just finish off this last story slugged 'Limpus' with the usual...