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...Scott promptly pulls some ranky-pranky: he sends Tony off on rest cure and then merrily moves in for the kill. Tony in retaliation tells Virna that Scott has "grabbed the Big Knob" in combat over Korea, and then merrily marries the girl before his rival can edit the obit. Scott in reprisal busts up the formation again. Tony is shipped off to arctic survival school, where the poor twerp shaves in leftover coffee, sleeps with a nice warm sled dog and sits miserably slurping puree of blubber in the path of a polar blizzard. Scott meanwhile reclines contentedly (though...
...College. Last spring the magazine came briefly to national attention after it published-as a sly commentary on the Christian atheism of Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton-a mock obituary for God, written by Poet Anthony Towne in the noncommittal style of the New York Times. The obit had previously been turned down by The New Yorker, the Christian Century and, of course, the Times-which later reprinted...
...flow. Just three hours after his stroke, United Press International began moving 20,000 words that touched on every facet of his career. Columnists Marquis Childs, David Lawrence and James Reston, among many others, turned out past-tense tributes that read as if Churchill were already dead. "The advance obit writers had an easy time with Winston Churchill," Reston wrote. "He had anticipated all the great crises of life, even his own death...
U.P.I, first began writing Churchill's obituary, in fact, back in 1931, when he was struck by a Manhattan cab, and has updated it regularly since. The Chicago Daily News had on hand an obit written a decade ago by the late Ernie Hill, then the News's London bureau chief; it has been rewritten twice by Hill's successors. Three months ago, the New York Times assigned Assistant Managing Editor Harrison Salisbury and two more staffers to review Churchill's life and revise the Times's standing obituary...
...years. The Chicago Tribune cast two galleys of type on Charles Lindbergh so long ago that no one on the staff remembers the obituary's vintage year. During a 1936 visit to San Francisco, George Bernard Shaw, then 79, was offered the chance to edit his own obit in the Chronicle. Shaw let it stand...