He was the award winning top editor of Money when it was hauling in over $250 million a year. He valiantly tried to keep George magazine alive in the days after JFK Jr. died. And he turned his own health struggles into a book for Simon & Schuster and a column for Parade. A veteran writer recalls the editor and the man.
Frank Lalli, who passed away this week, impacted so many journalists’ lives. Including my own. When he moved from the East to the West coast for awhile, he was a top editor at New West Magazine and then the L.A. Herald Examiner. (And his wife, Carole, became an important food critic) I freelanced for...