San Diego Society Columnist Bequeaths Journalistic Thanks
Burl Stiff, the retired San Diego Union-Tribune society columnist who passed away May 20th at age 83, was one of the last remaining vestiges of the pre-Internet version of the profession. He began covering the city’s high society circles in 1976.
The celebs written up by Stiff generally behaved with more class than many of today’s reality TV soaked attention seekers. So it’s delightful to hear, via an item in the San Diego Reader, that the departed boldface chronicler shared some final in-kind sentiments in his will:
Stiff left $10,000 to Trish Barr, who had been his editor at Union-Tribune.
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