Passings
Bertram E. Winrow Former publisher of the Daily Breeze Bertram E. Winrow, 81, the former publisher of the Daily Breeze, died Monday of cancer at his home in the San Diego neighborhood of Rancho Bernardo. He was 81.
As publisher of Copley Los Angeles Newspapers, Winrow oversaw the consolidation of the flagship Daily Breeze in Torrance with the Outlook in Santa Monica and the News-Pilot in San Pedro.
A drive to raise advertising revenue prompted Winrow to develop a consortium with other regional papers to sell national advertising.
Winrow also expanded a printing plant in Torrance to include a now-defunct insert center and circulation department. He also initiated the use of color photographs on the cover of every section.
Winrow, a native of Pittsburgh, moved to San Diego as a child.
He worked in advertising for 14 years with the San Diego Independent and joined Copley Newspapers in 1963 as an advertising salesman for the Union-Tribune Publishing Co. in San Diego.
Winrow was named publisher of the Breeze in 1984. He retired in 1993 and returned to San Diego.
Robert Cunniff'Sesame Street' producer, TV writer
Robert Cunniff, 81, a television writer and producer who shared an Emmy Award in the early 1970s as a producer of "Sesame Street," died Jan. 20 at a nursing facility in Brooklyn, N.Y., after a long illness.
Cunniff, a producer for "Sesame Street" from 1972 to 1975, shared an Emmy Award with executive producer Jon Stone for outstanding achievement in children's programming, in 1973.
Cunniff also was a writer for the "Today" show from 1963 to 1969 and was a member of the writing staff for "The Dick Cavett Show" from 1969 to '72.
In 1976, he began a nearly one-year stint as producer/managing editor of "Good Morning, America."
He later conceived, co-wrote and executive-produced "Mouseterpiece Theater," a popular Disney Channel series launched in 1983 featuring vintage Disney cartoons and George Plimpton as its host.
Born in Chicago on Sept. 13, 1926, Cunniff earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois.
After serving in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II, he earned a master's degree in literature at the University of Chicago.
Cunniff went on to write for the Chicago Sun-Times and TV Guide, and he and fellow Chicagoan Tom O'Malley wrote a syndicated newspaper column about television, "Cunniff and O'Malley," from 1954 to 1957.
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