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Seah Chiang Nee, a Singaporean journalist, has died aged 77. He was the first South-East Asian to undergo a heart transplant, in 1985, and was also one of the longest living survivors of a heart transplant. He worked for Reuters 1960-1970, providing coverage of the Vietnam war. After various stints at other papers in Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong, he settled to work for The Star, providing a column from 1986-2014.

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Yes, my sole unique pick. Given his early interest in a now very relevant public figure, I'd be shocked if a QO doesn't appear.

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Nice one Death Impends.

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Yes, my sole unique pick. Given his early interest in a now very relevant public figure, I'd be shocked if a QO doesn't appear.

 

Only about 30 mins I was joking about us being joint bottom of the DDP - quality jinxing.

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George Krimsky, American journalist who covered the arrest of Charles Manson, has died aged 75. Perhaps an omen of good things to come?

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Mark Spitz, an American music journalist, author and playwright, has died aged 47. He contributed to Spin, The New York Times, New York Post and Vanity Fair, amongst others.

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Steve Hewlett got married as he only has weeks to live. And if he really got married we know how this is going to end.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/radio-4s-steve-hewlett-marries-9774224

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Divorce?

The type of divorce John Wetton and A. A. Gill knew very well.

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Divorce?

The type of divorce John Wetton and A. A. Gill knew very well.

 

 

Except Gill left it too late.

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/12/steve-hewletter-cancer-interviews-eddie-mair-radio-4:Update on Hewlett.

 

Over the phone, Hewlett’s voice is croaky, but his mind is as sharp as ever.

“My situation is acute,” he says. “I can go at any moment. But it doesn’t feel like it to me. This morning, I felt a bit queasy, and I have a few aches and pains, but otherwise I don’t feel compromised. My brain doesn’t feel like it doesn’t work.”

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Hm. He'll die this year, but I can see him lasting a few more months tbh. Though I wouldn't be surprised if he dies tomorrow.

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Hm. He'll die this year, but I can see him lasting a few more months tbh. Though I wouldn't be surprised if he dies tomorrow.

It is more that his liver could go into spasm at any moment and kill him.As this is a complication of the cancer it is likely that will get him first.

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Just listening to Steve Hewlett`s latest Eddie Mair interview.Still in the Royal Marsden but is looking to go to a hospice but it is difficult to know what type of care he would need as his prognosis is so uncertain.Lucid to a point but trails off.Voice is increasingly crackly and almost slurred at times.

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Charles Bartlett, journalist for the Chattanooga Times, whose reporting caused third Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott to resign from his post and won him a Pulitzer for National Reporting, died at age 95. He is also widely credited for arranging the first blind date between Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy!

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Andrew Schneider, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize (Specialised Reporting, 1986, with Mary Pat Flaherty and Public Service, 1987, with Matthew Brelis, both with the Pittsburgh Press) and reporter for the Pittsburgh Press and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer died on Feb 17th at age 74.

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