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Ben Bradlee Was the Last of the Newspaper Giants

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Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic says his boss, who died Tuesday at 93, justified the description ‘legendary’ a hundred times over.

Tom Shales
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