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The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

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Waverley Root
Age: 79 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 15
Died: 1982
Died: October 31
Author
Journalist
Writer
Rhode Island
United States
Waverley Lewis Root
Life
Stock
Newspapers
Drinking
Fiction
Literature
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Newspaperman
Hard
Phased

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