Posts Tagged ‘Herb Cray’

Now Nancy Poole, Herb Cray and Carlene Goddard Mazur languish. True gentleman Bill Hyland is dead. So are Bob Hyland, Jack Buck, Jack Carney, Ruth Jacobson, Max Roby, Mary Kimbrough, Rex Davis, Al Fleishman, Dan Forestal, Bob Burnes, Bob Broeg, John McGuire, Selwyn Pepper, Joe Pulitzer, Bill Culver, C.C. Johnson Spink, Chuck Norman, Virginia Irwin, Dunc Bauman, The Globe-Democrat, the old Press Club, the Bismarck Cafe, “Goodfellas” Jimmy Michaels, John Vitale and Tony Giordano and The Globe-Democrat. Sometimes I feel like the survivor of The Last Person Club. Throw another buck at the slot. Oh, hell. . . .

The columnist doesn’t think guv Jay will ride in a state car to the July 31 commissioning of the USS Missouri submarine in New Groton, Connecticut. . . Quondom P-D scribe Ellen Sweets has completed her biography on columnist and best-selling author of Molly Ivins, which is heading to the publisher from Sweets’ homebase in Austin, TX., where Ivins died in 2007. Ivins will be remembered as a George W. Busch-basher. . . Jarrett Medlin has been upped to editor-in-chief of St. Louis magazine, succeeding Stephen Schenkenberg, who is relocating to Berlin. . . Longtime Tony’s maitre d’ Herb Cray has been discharged from rehab at Delmar Gardens West.