And what that was like. I found myself, like my mother, reading the obituaries, especially if they had Alden Whitman's byline. Alden Whitman finally left the Times . I don't know if he still lives, but his influence certainly does. He might have died when I was out of town.
Life is like that.
However, because of him, I've taken to obituary reading elsewhere in the world. The best that I know of are in London at the Times and the Telegraph . They are distinctly different. But if you read them both, about the same person, you will see the differences in the two papers as well as the two writers. Nevertheless they are both good.