In matter of life and death, the joke is on Buchwald

By Stevenson Swanson
Tribune national correspondent
Published August 27, 2006

MARTHA'S VINEYARD, Mass. -- Art Buchwald was supposed to be entertaining angels by now.

In February, the ailing newspaper columnist said goodbye to his friends and checked himself into a Washington, D.C., hospice to await his final deadline.

But a funny thing happened to the man who has spent his life making readers laugh.

He lived.

So he did what he has done every summer since the mid-1960s. He came to Martha's Vineyard. He shows no signs of dying here, either.

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