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<text id=90TT2480>
<title>
Sep. 17, 1990: Died:Alden Whitman
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Sep. 17, 1990 The Rotting Of The Big Apple
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
MILESTONES, Page 69
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<body>
<p> DIED. Alden Whitman, 76, former New York Times copy editor
and reporter renowned for his lively and illuminating
obituaries; in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Whitman, who preferred the
term "biographical profile" to obituary, traveled all over the
world meeting many of his subjects before their deaths. Charles
Lindbergh, Anthony Eden, Harry Truman and Charlie Chaplin were
a few of the notables he captured through informal interviews,
kept confidential until their deaths. "A good obit," he once
wrote, "has all the characteristics of a well-focused snapshot...a quick fix on the subject, his attainments, his
shortcomings and his times."
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</body>
</article>
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