On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:26:05 -0500 (EST) Michael Pollak
<mpollak at panix.com> writes:
>
> [I didn't realize it was so recent a transformation, and so
> traceable to
> one man]
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/nyregion/30massingberd.html
>
> The New York Times
> December 30, 2007
>
> Hugh Massingberd, Laureate for the Departed, Dies
>
Also see:
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3100894.ece
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3286798.ece
and of course: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/27/nmassing127.xml