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| | Obituaries: Irv Kupcinet, Who Chronicled Chicago for 60 Years, Dies at 91 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21) |
 | | Kupcinet was possessed of an old-fashioned love for a particular kind of old-fashioned journalism and for a particular city, Chicago, and its feistiness, its turmoil and occasional bawdiness. |
 | | Irving Kupcinet (pronounced KUP-sin-ette) was born July 31, 1912, one of four children of Max Kupcinet, a truck driver for a bakery, and the former Anna Paswell. |
 | | Kupcinet's wife of 62 years, Essee, died in 2001 and was, at her suggestion, buried with two packs of unfiltered Pall Mall cigarettes at her side. |
| www.nytimes.com /2003/11/11/college/coll11KUPC.html?ex=1146978000&en=a67326bbe1550ae9&ei=5034 (1074 words) |
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