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Timothy J. Wheeler, R.I.P.(OBITUARY)(Obituary)
TIM WHEELER wasn't a household name, even within the conservative movement. But a generation of NR readers took delight in his words, whether or not they knew the identity of their author. Tim was the king of the "offbeat paragraph"--the short items, sometimes political but often not, with which WFB, as editor, always began and ended the opening section of The Week.
"What, you ask, are the two greatest health problems among teenagers? Pregnancy and pimples, in that order. Now aren't you sorry you brought it up?"
"Three cosmonauts spent a record 238 days in the Salyut 7 space station, but were finally forced to return to the Soviet Union."
After the Mount St. Helens eruption: "I'm sorry I made an ash of myself. Lava, come back to me. Love, Helen."
And one of WFB's own favorites: "Iraq and the budget are as nothing compared to the firestorm following the retirement of maize, raw umber, lemon yellow, blue grey, violet blue, green blue, orange red, and orange and their replacement by vivid tangerine, wild ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Timothy J. Wheeler, R.I.P.(OBITUARY)(Obituary)