Nice tribute by Margery Eagan to the late Boston Herald American editor Don Forst and what former Herald editor Kevin Convey — among others — learned from him. James Barron of The New York Times has a fuller treatment of Forst’s career, much of which was spent in New York.
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What comes through in Eagan’s portrayal of Don Forst is not just the force of Forst but the honesty, candor and clarity of Margery’s own writing. Margie Arons-Barron