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RIP WC Heinz,93

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W. C. Heinz, the sports columnist, war correspondent, magazine writer and novelist who was considered one of the finest journalistic stylists of his era, died Wednesday in Bennington, Vt. He was 93.
(co-wrote M*A*S*H)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/sports/28heinz.html

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** FILE ** W.C. "Bill" Heinz shows his 1932 Remington typewriter at his home in Bennington, Vt., in this Nov. 7, 2002 file photo. Heinz, an author, sportswriter and war correspondent, used the typewriter in World War II to write about the allied invasion of France. Heinz, a former New York Sun sportswriter and author who witnessed the Normandy invasion on D-Day, covered some of the greatest sports moments of the 1940s and helped write the book MASH, has died. Heinz died early Wednesday in Bennington, Vt., according to his daughter. He was 93. (AP Photo/Tim Roske, file)
 

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