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Thomas Meehan

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5 picks · 1967–1971

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Spiro Agnew to Rise At Marshgrass
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Last week, after 52% of the adult population of Gerber's Corners, Mo. had admitted that the noise from the hypersonic boom tests over their town was no…

The Last Merger
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Parody of the Post, the Daily News, and The New York Times, in the form of a series of excerpts from a Monday city edition of these ostensibly merged …

II Talento Mysterioso
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The author, who majored in madrigal singing at a Montana college, found he had an uncanny talent for translating words from foreign languages he didn't…

For Whom The Bell Doesn't Toll
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Charlie Bursby, a glum friend of mine, asked me to meet him for a drink. He was morose. Being merely 38, he was between what Time Magazine has labeled the …