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I want to first of all express my regret at the information I've just received in regard to the death of our colleague in these press conferences and a fine newspaper man, Ed
Koterba, who, I understand, was killed in a plane crash last night. He was a most--he was an outstanding newspaperman who was
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Koterba a job as their nationally syndicated Washington columnist, replacing Frederick Othman following his death in December 1958. The new column, "Assignment Washington" ran until Koterba's own death in 1961 at the age of 42. He was killed on 27 June 1961, along with four other people
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with their young son. In his downtime, Koterba also began to write a daily column about the lighter side of political life in
Washington, D.C. First called "Jottings from Washington" and later "A Bit of Washington", it was initially syndicated to
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He was drafted into the army in 1942, and primarily worked in military intelligence posts serving as a
Russian and Czech interpreter. His language abilities were key in his placement at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, where he became one of the
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Scripps-Howard, and we want to express our sympathy to members of his family and also to the papers with which he was associated. I want to say personally that I'm extremely sorry to have heard the news.
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