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Article: ALFRED J. MONAHAN, 79; LONGTIME REPORTER AND EDITOR AT THE GLOBE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 7, 1987
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Alfred J. (Al) Monahan, 79, former city editor of The Boston
Globe and a fixture on the paper for half a century, died Monday in
the Melrose-Wakefield Hospital.
Mr. Monahan, who lived on Bradford Street in Everett, had been
a patient at the Bear Hill Nursing Center in Stoneham since May
1986. He was taken to the hospital last Thursday.
Before retirement in 1977, he was the paper's liaison and
control editor, as well as resident political consultant, after a
career in journalism that went back to his high school days in
1923.
But his love affair with the newspaper business started even
before that. As kids, he and his brother, Jim, put out their own
neighborhood paper on a miniature ...