Re: Sad news.

**R* W* <r*@coolspringspress.com>**

My nickname for jim was "Godfather" because he was so influential on my career in publishing... I will miss his phone calls that always started with a 'Hello Friend!" from him....
On Aug 2, 2010, at 8:05 PM, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp wrote:

> Jim was the very first celebrity person I interviewed when I started writing my weekly garden column in the Indianapolis Star in 1989. He was gracious, warm, personable and put my rookie jitters at bay. I loved seeing him at the GWA conferences and elsewhere. Such a delightful person. But what really earned him high marks was that he always remembered my name. That meant a lot to me.
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> jems
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