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Leon Earlen Taylor III wrote for the Philadelphia Daily News.

Newsman Leon Taylor dies

Source:    Jim Nicholson was an award-winning obituary writer for the Daily News for 19 years. His style has been featured in journalism texts and widely copied. He was Leon Taylor's obituary-writing mentor, and has come out of retirement to write Taylor's +, obituary at Taylor's request. Reporting was done by Nicholson, Yvonne Latty and Barbara Laker.

LEON "THE FLY" Taylor, a retired Daily News reporter whose stories carried credibility and whose life centered on compassion, died Sunday of cancer. He was 52 and lived in Middleburg, Fla. For much of the public, reporters are always around, like bad weather and bad news. But Leon Taylors come along only once in a while. In the newsroom, where age and sex and status create the inevitable office cliques, Taylor moved through the social strata like it was vapor. In

Published on 2004-12-28, Page 07, Philadelphia Daily News (PA)

Not free. I do not pay for news, so the synopsis will have to do. There is another version on a website.