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It was around two decades ago, in the city room of the Boston Evening Transcript, that I first became aware of the elongated-yellow-fruit school of writing. The phrase turned up in a story... about some fugitive monkeys and the efforts of police to recapture them by using bananas as bait.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Morton
Born:
February 10, 1899
Died:
1967
(aged 67)
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Charles Walton Morton, Jr. was a writer and journalist. Morton served as the associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly for 26 years. He also wrote several books about publishing, relationships, and other subjects.
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