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...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...
...Obit. In Dallas, the Dead Letter Department opened a misaddressed envelope, found inside a poignantly-worded message: "We're all well here-excepting Pa, and he caught the flu and died; but that's all right, because all he ever done was slop the hogs, anyhow...
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...pity the hack who in the guise of an obituary has tried to cut down Eugene O'Neill to the size of the obit-writer. It is bad enough for the witless and mean-spirited to judge their living betters ; when they cut coffins for the gifted dead to the shape and size of their own malformed souls it is un forgivable...