But the obituary kept in his safe was to be the official document for the obit page.

Indeed, I wonder if George Bailey would have made the obit page or whether his wife, Mary, would have been shuffled off to death notices when she called the newspaper.

The obit pages report that William McChesney Martin, Jr., former chair of the Federal Reserve, died on Tuesday.

"The obit page was a holding pen for broken-down journalists and young reporters who needed to be broken in."

Do you look at the paid ones for possible inclusion in the obit page, or not?

The obit page, after all, is a collection of stories, of people's lives, some well known, some obscure.

Where else but on the obit page could I have learned about the creation of my teen-age fantasy?

Too many treat the obit page as a depressing burden, or at best a place to mention a lot of names to please a lot of readers.

Faces you had got used to seeing in the gym kept turning up on the obit pages.

Newsday critic Allan Wallack said "Man on the Moon is the kind of show that ought to be reviewed on the obit page."