 uh... he died a journalist death or maybe a kind of death many journalists would like to have it was in nineteen twenty one and he was sitting at his desk at the uh... new york tribune building and he just banged out his last column and he typed thirty at the bottom which for those not in the journalism business thirty means you're done that's it and uh... he was indeed done bat had a sudden massive heart attack slumped over his typewriter and died at his desk more than five hundred people attend his funeral