933...William Safire Leaves The Planet

Reported widely, William Safire, conservative political columnist and language savant, died today at a hospice.

The reported cause of death is of pancreatic cancer.

His On Language columns ran until two weeks ago.

A Pulitzer Prize winner in '78, Mr. Safire, wrote a semi-weekly political column in the New York Times from 1973 to 2005. He wrote an erudite and opinionated series of articles, ultimately creating a body of work that he described as libertarian conservative.

Say a prayer.

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707...They Are Dropping Like Flies At CBS

Don Hewitt, the brains behind the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes, left the planet yesterday, again reported everywhere in North America.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, a huge and incredibly fast killer.

He was 86 but still sharp as a tack.

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