Posted on 06/28/2009 8:55:22 PM PDT by paltz
Mary Lou Forbes was a traditional Virginia gentlewoman. Her hint of a Southern accent and her friendly, hospitable and gracious manner were suggestive of the Northern Virginia in which she was born and came of age. That was a smaller, less bustling, but more neighborly place than the sprawling suburbia of today.
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She was a terrific lady.
I remember once riding with her in her 1966 Ford Mustang convertible. A guy pulled up next to her at a red light, leaned out of the window, and said, “Can I trade my car for yours?”
She was a great editor and a great conservative.
A disappearing breed, practically extinct in the newsroom(s).
Everything now done there is effectively counter to all this good woman, and the many like her, stood for and professionally did daily.
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