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Literate NBC News correspondent Edwin Newman dies at 91
« on: September 16, 2010, 12:37:33 PM »
David Bauder
AP via The Baltimore Sun
September 15, 2010

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Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC  newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best sellers "Strictly Speaking" and "A Civil Tongue," has died. He was 91.

Newman died on Aug. 13 of pneumonia in Oxford, England. He had moved there with his wife in 2007 to live closer to their daughter, said his lawyer Rupert Mead. He said the family delayed announcing Newman's death so they could spend some time privately grieving.

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