Stylish, stimulating and life-affirming, Katharine Whitehorn, the Observer writer and broadcaster who helped shape modern British journalism, was mourned by readers and former colleagues at the weekend. An Observer Magazine cover from May 1968 featuring Katharine Whitehorn’s piece, Social bloomers and how to get out of them. Among those to pay tribute were Observer food writer Jay Rayner, son of Claire Rayner, who said: “Farewell to dear Kath Whitehorn. Photographer Bert Hardy’s image of Whitehorn pondering by a fire even went on to be used in an ad for Lucozade. In 1983, to mark the Observer’s 10,000th edition, Whitehorn wrote the introduction to a celebration of the newspaper’s history and remembered how carefully writers had to handle former editor David Astor’s views on women’s role in life.

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2021 19:07 UTC