"Man, 55..."

[fleetfootmike]

It's how the Bucks local papers referred to keristor.

And I think that, in the end, is the thing that really gets me. That someone with his skills, his talent, his generosity, can be reduced by an accident to those two words. There's a part of me wants to find the person who wrote that, show them everything that's been written about him here and elsewhere, and say "Look. I know it's not your fault that at the time you wrote the piece that's all you could say. But I'd like you to know what the man you wrote about was really like."

I may yet.

[Edit: Yes, I know this isn't the reporter's fault.]

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[occams_pyramid]

The very junior reporter who wrote that probably wasn't given time to write any more, let alone to research it. But if you can send them a letter or article they might well print it.

Probably helps if you can make it fit their style, give some local interest, and keep it short - ideally so they can just slot it in.

Pterry has noted that he saw his first dead body on his first day of work as a junior reporter, and had any tendency to writer's block burned out of him by deadlines - presumably all local papers are much the same.