In Memoriam: Old School Newspaper Man Bob Greer

In the 1960s, Greer (pictured above, right) covered the case that Truman Capote would later famously chronicle in the groundbreaking tome In Cold Blood. His family survived during The Great Depression by selling peaches door-to-door(!) and he was very proud of never having had anything to do with the era of page views, unique visitors and alternate Web headlines:

Greer possessively hung on to three manual typewriters, in case one or two would be in a state of repair, and avidly embraced his hunt-and-peck method of typing stories and scratching story ideas on napkins until the last few months of his life.