RIP, famous person

Carruthers · 10-22-2014, 07:44 AM

Ben Bradlee

Ben Bradlee, the editor of the Washington Post during the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon, has died aged 93.

BBC Link

glatt · 10-22-2014, 08:41 AM

This morning, the Washington Post gave him the front page above the fold and like 7-8 pages in the A section. I wonder how many they gave US Presidents when they died? Can't remember.

Reminds me of when I was on yearbook staff in high school, I was able to get photos of all my siblings into the yearbook, while the year before, when I wasn't on the staff, none of us were in there.

Carruthers · 10-23-2014, 12:10 PM

We are all flawed...

Quote:

The late Ben Bradlee, editor of The Washington Post during Watergate, is called “the least dull figure in the history of postwar journalism” in a personal obituary by David Remnick in The New Yorker. Bradlee, who Remnick says was an “expert in the art of florid dismissal”, liked to dictate his correspondence into a recorder but his secretary struggled with his industrial language. On one occasion she had to go and ask the advice of the custodian of the paper’s style guide: “Is ‘dickhead’ one word or two?”

The Times

xoxoxoBruce · 10-23-2014, 06:41 PM

Gravdigr · 10-25-2014, 12:28 PM

Legendary bass man Jack Bruce is dead at 71.

Griff · 10-25-2014, 03:37 PM

Bummer.

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Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	Ben Bradlee Ben Bradlee, the editor of the Washington Post during the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon, has died aged 93. BBC Link

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glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	This morning, the Washington Post gave him the front page above the fold and like 7-8 pages in the A section. I wonder how many they gave US Presidents when they died? Can't remember. Reminds me of when I was on yearbook staff in high school, I was able to get photos of all my siblings into the yearbook, while the year before, when I wasn't on the staff, none of us were in there.

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