LAT's Gold jumps to Washington Post
Annual issue is out this weekChecking out the news rack headlines outside Starbucks this morning I did a double take at the colorful Daily News banner, thinking I'd missed a major obituary. Splashed large across the top of page one, in past tense: Hope was masterful as 20th century's funny man. It was just a story on Bob Hope turning 100, by film writer Bob Strauss.
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