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Sally Defty: Heralded journalist and first woman executive city editor at Post-Dispatch dies

  • By Robert Duffy
  • July 6, 2022

Sally Bixby Defty, a heralded journalist known internationally for the depth and beauty of her writing and editing, as.

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