Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Poetic Obituaries: [Phil Stone] wanted to be a writer.

He began selling freelance articles to magazines and newspapers. He wrote a column for the Toronto Daily Star called Poems and Thoughts, a collection of light verse and everyday ironies. He sent jokes and observations to Walter Winchell, the legendary New York City newspaperman who invented the gossip column, and when Winchell printed some of them, he was encouraged.

from The Stone Report: A radio pioneer dies

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