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Harry Grayson, famed NEA sports editor, dies at 74
Harry Grayson, renowned sports writer and former NEA sports editor, died at St. Luke's Hospital at age 74 after a yearlong cancer illness. Born May 10 1894 in Astoria Oregon, he covered boxing, golf, football and major athletes from the Golden Twenties to the Enlightened Sixties, earning the National Headliners Award in 1958 and authoring They Played the Game. He served 30 years at NEA, toured war zones in 1945, and later wrote for NBA as a roving correspondent. He is survived by his wife Ivy and a son Harry Grayson Jr.
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