Edwin Newman, NBC Newsman With Ear for Words, Dies
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Edwin Newman, the longtime NBC television newsman who wrote two bestselling books on the use and misuse of the English language, has died. He was 91.
He died of pneumonia on Aug. 13 in Oxford, England, the Associated Press reported, citing his lawyer, Rupert Mead. Newman and his wife moved there in 2007 to be closer to their daughter, Mead said.