New York Times Magazine columnist William Safire, whose writing rules included never split an infinitive, avoid mixingmetaphors, proof read carefully andavoid clichés, died of pancreatic cancer September 27.
Frank Devine, 77, a former foreign correspondent and newspaper andmagazine editor, died in Sydney July 3 after suffering from heart andlung ailments and prostrate cancer.
An OPC member since 1960, Josephine Lyons arrived in New York in her twenties from her hometown of Cincinnati, stayed at the Barbizon, became Miss Subways, produced for NBC News, worked for Arthur Godfrey, CBS, Benton...