Greenberg is missed

Although he was essentially retired, I will miss Paul Greenberg. I quite often disagreed with his editorials and columns, but I always appreciated his writing and his style.

I met him and his wife at Molly’s in Hot Springs nearly 50 years ago. He had won his Pulitzer two years earlier, something of which I was unaware at the time, and he certainly never mentioned it. He was down-toearth, gracious, knowledgeable, and extremely personable. A man with opinions without being opinionated. We never met again, but the memory stayed with me.

Bill Bowden’s news story (really more a very well-done obituary), the fabulous John Deering cartoon, the editorial headed simply “Paul” and the reprint of an earlier Greenberg column, all in the April 8 edition, were wonderful tributes to a great newspaper man. I am sure that I am not alone in saying that he will be greatly missed.

DOUG RAWN Little Rock