Passages
Rudy Abramson, a former longtime Washington reporter for The Los Angeles Times who wrote a highly praised biography of American statesman W. Averell Harriman, has died. He was 70. Abramson was a native Appalachian, born in Florence, Ala., on Aug. 31, 1937. After graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1958, he became a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean. After several years as the Tennessean’s Washington correspondent, he was hired by The Times, where he “had a part in just about every major story for 30 years,” said longtime colleague Richard T. Cooper.