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There’s a lot being written lately about the importance of “dream teams” in success. Malcom Gladwell writes about it in Outliers and Keith Ferrazzi in his new book Who’s Got Your Back. My late husband Tim Robinson, a legendary journalist, often said he wasn’t sure if it was talent or pure luck that got him [...]
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I remember the day Ruffian died. She was a huge black filly with unbelievable spirit and beauty. It was July 6, 1975 and she was locked in a duel with the Kentucky Derby winner, Foolish Pleasure, a small chestnut, in a highly publicized match race at Belmont Park. Then as dark clouds gathered, Ruffian stumbled and went down. The roaring fans in the grand stand gasped collectively. My friends and I were in shock and then the tears came. The gallant filly had broken her leg. She was later euthanized. It was as though the heavens weeped as a thunder shower moved in that day.
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Joe Chapman wrote that Tim was “a bit of a carouser.” Oh Joe, you do Tim a disservice. He was a ball of fun! Party boy extroadinaire. Right Al? Surely Ron Tate could attest to that. Tim and Howell Raines were contemporaries at the BX Post-Herald in 1964-65; BX-born and bred Howell was a recent [...]
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10/9/2003 12:18:10 PM Posted By: Jim Romenesko From TERRY CARTER: Journalists get good obituaries, fittingly, and today there’s one for Tim Robinson. That would be T. Sumner Robinson. His claim to fame was legal affairs journalism. He’d been an editor at the Washington Post; he moved on to run The National Law Journal, where he [...]
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I am Tim’s sister, Terah Sherer, his only sister. Most of you do not know or have forgotten Tim was born in Thomasville, Alabama in Clark County. During World War II our father had a government job with the postal service. During the fall of 1944 we briefly lived in Tarrant in the house of [...]
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