Columnist Jack Anderson

Thanks for the tip, Edgar. I hadn't heard.

Anderson was from the old school of journalism, where muckraking was considered a virtue, not a vice. He stepped on a lot of toes in so doing. My one gripe against him was that he could wrap himself in a shroud of noble moral probity, then make a mountain out of a molehill. The Sherman Adams episode was such fiasco. He practically ruined Adams's career over something that, in the long run, was of little significance and only passing interest to most newspaper readers. But de mortuis nihil nisi bonum.

Damn!! We lost another one, we just can't get a break.