The obit they didn't want to publish- December 27, 2007 Many well-known people died on Christmas Day. James Brown last year; Dean Martin and Charlie Chaplin a few before that. Suitably for my current location, Nicolai Ceausescu as well. This year, it didn't make the front pages, but a great man of literature did die: Hugh Massingberd, the man who changed the nature of the modern obituary, via the pages of the Daily Telegraph. I had the good fortune to meet this giant of a man (in every way) a few years ago. The current incumbent at the Telegraph,...http://www.losowsky.co.uk/weblog/archives/2007/12/27/the_obit_they_d.html |