UPI Reporter Gets the Kind of Death He Likely Would Have Chosen

Frederic M. Winship's career with the wire service dated back to 1946.

Frederick M. Winship, a longtime UPI editor, Broadway critic and contributor who passed away this week at age 90, belonged to a daintier era of journalism. To wit, this letter to the editor sent in 2003 to The New York Times:

Miss Hepburn Would Not Have Approved

To the Editor:

I was surprised, then chagrined, to read the recipe for Katharine Hepburn’s brownies submitted by Heather Henderson (Letters, July 6). Certainly Miss Hepburn would never have substituted an ingredient as anemic as cocoa for real, unadulterated chocolate, and I have proof of it in my own recipe file.

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