Features

September 2006 Issue

8 Bells for Dale Nouse

PS Executive Editor dies at the age of 85.

"Easy come, easy go."

Those were nearly Dale Nouse’s last words to me. "Easy for you to say," I retorted. "I’m the one who has to live with you gone."

Our conversations were always frank. That’s the way he insisted they be—no social niceties.

I’d just learned that Dale had inoperable tumors in his abdominal lining; the doctors had given him just three or four months to live. Turned out, that forecast was exceedingly optimistic. Or maybe…

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