A grand name in the news-synopsis business, Rob Roy Buckingham, died in Sarasota, Fla., Dec. 31. He was 88. In 1962, Buckingham became head of the New York Times News Service, Dennis Hevesi reports,
which at the time sent roughly 20,000 words of synopses of
Times articles to about 50 newspapers a day between the hours of 3 and 11 p.m. Earlier, Buckingham was a foreign correspondent for
United Press.
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