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- Aug. 10, 1992: Died:Kirk Scharfenberg
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 10, 1992 The Doomsday Plan
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 23
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- <p> DIED. Kirk Scharfenberg, 48, editor at the Boston Globe who
- shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for a series on racism; of
- cancer; in Boston. Scharfenberg was the author of what he called
- "maybe the most notable gaffe in recent newspaper history." As
- an in-house joke, he sent through a 1980 editorial about
- President Carter's economic plan with the headline MUSH FROM THE
- WIMP, thinking it would be removed. Instead, the headline
- appeared in 161,000 copies of the Globe.
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