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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.

Charles Morton

Charles Morton

Charles Morton

Born: February 10, 1899

Died: 1967 (aged 67)

Bio: 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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