Bill Boyle (“A True Man of Letters”) Dies

    A dark cloud creased the air at the New York Daily News, when it was learned Saturday that Bill Boyle, 54, senior managing editor had died after a long battle with stage-three melanoma.
   The chain-smoking coffee drinking Philadelphia native first landed at the New York tabloid in 1986 as city editor.
   Martin Dunn, Editor-in-Chief & Deputy Publisher at the New York Daily News wrote this about Boyle through an email: “He absolutely believed that less is more and that one great word was absolutely better than four average words.''
   David Hinckley, the paper's critic at large, who writes on American pop culture, considered his former boss “one of those (unfortunately)
rare people who had the ability to see the newspaper through the eyes of
the reader. He could focus on content, on what a newspaper was
delivering to its reader, and not get bogged down in personalities and all
the internal minidramas that, alas, so often can compromise what ends
up in print. Bill seemed able to say "Is this of interest to the reader? Will
it serve the reader? Will it inform the reader?"
   A rare breed indeed.
   The Morning Delivery sends its heartfelt condolences to his wife Gail, son Timothy, and the rest of the Boyle family.
–Bill Lucey
billlucey@bellsouth.net