Warren Boroson

The NY Times article can be read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/
Warren Boroson, prolific writer, dies at 88
Warren Boroson, a prolific writer who went from political writing to financial writing to writing and lecturing about music, died March 12 at his home in Woodstock, NY. He was 88 years old.
Boroson, who grew up in New Jersey was sued for libel in the 1960s by Sen. Barry Goldwater as a result of his participation in a poll of psychiatrists about Goldwater's mental health. The jury awarded Goldwater $25,000 in punitive damages against Ralph Ginzburg, who published the poll in Fact magazine; $50,000 in punitive damages against the magazine, and $1 in compensation. Boroson's share, paid by his attorney, the late Stanley Arkin, was one-third of that dollar.
Boroson is quoted extensively in the book "Diagnosing from a Distance. Debates over Libel Law, Media, and Psychiatric Ethics from Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump," by John Martin-Joy (March 2020.
He actually had left the magazine before the issue was published because the article he had originally written, he reported, was badly rewritten by David Bar-Illan, the Israeli pianist and politician.
He attended schools in West New York, NJ, then graduated from Columbia College in 1957 - Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude.
He worked at The Record of Hackensack, NJ, the Daily Record of Morris County, and Newjerseynewsroom.com, as well as at such magazines as Transaction (published by Washington University in St. Louis), Medical Economics, NEXT, Money, and Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine.
He wrote freelance articles for The New York Times Magazine, Consumer Reports, Woman's Day, TV Guide, and Family Circle. He covered a variety of subjects - from why blondes supposedly "have more fun" to why so many people doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed President Kennedy.
He also wrote in-depth pieces for The Jewish Standard on such disparate subjects as Richard Wagner and Bernard Madoff.
He taught at The New School (investing), Rutgers (journalism), Ramapo (finance), Bergen Community College (music), and Bard Lifelong Learning Institute (music), and Marist College's adult education classes (music).
He claimed he was the first person to have published a letter from "Typhoid Mary" Mallon - in MD magazine. He also discovered the real name of the actress who starred in "The Passion of Joan of Arc" - Renée Falconetti - and donated articles and correspondence about her to the New York Public Library, where they are lodged as the Warren Boroson Collection. He also conducted a number of Delphi polls for NEXT magazine, including one about the next nuclear war (the experts concluded that it would be between India and Pakistan). He wrote books on investing and music.
He is survived by his wife, Rebecca. Marrying her, he liked to say, "was the best thing that ever happened to me." He is also survived by his sons, Bram and Matthew (and Matthew's wife, Sally Wright); his brother, Dr. Hugh Boroson (and his wife, Dorothy); his sister-in-law Miriam Kaplan Pickett (and her husband, Mark); three nieces, Elizabeth Pickett, Marissa Pickett McAleer, and Bonnie Boroson; and three nephews, Bill and Craig Boroson and Cliff Low. His brother Roger and sister Glenna predeceased him.
Contributions in his memory may be made to a charity of your choice.