LOS ANGELES — Jim Bellows, a legendary editor who built a career resuscitating underdog big-city newspapers from Los Angeles to New York and helped turn Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin into stars, has died. He was 86.
Legendary editor Jim Bellows dies at 86
Saturday, March 7, 2009 | 6:48 p.m. CST;
updated 8:03 p.m. CST, Saturday, March 7, 2009
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