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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007 Allen: Halberstam's death was not just the death of a hero Washington Post
"It was like the death of the great Hollywood stars -- Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable," writes Henry Allen. "Who would replace them? No one has. Maybe no one ever does." He adds: "[David Halberstam's] schoolboy earnestness seemed preposterous in a man this famous, sophisticated and well connected, but it was the preposterousness that made him likable rather than insufferable. It even made him lovable unless you were on his enemies list, which was not short."