Posted on 07/02/2009 7:34:36 PM PDT by naturalman1975
VETERAN newspaper columnist and editor Frank Devine has died. He was 77 years old.
Friend and former New South Wales Opposition leader Peter Coleman, writing on The Australian website where Devine was a former columnist and editor, described him as the "laughing cavalier of Australian journalism".
Devine had been editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Post, a senior editor at the American edition of Reader's Digest and editor-in-chief of the Australian Reader's Digest.
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RIP.
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