To age groups of Times colleagues, Mr. Clines was an almost suitable reporter: a keen onlooker, a solid fact-finder as well as a model of stability as well as justness that could possibly write gracefully versus a deadline.” Mr. Clines wrote 3 900-word “About New York “columns a full week.” Francis Xavier Clines was actually birthed in Brooklyn on Feb. 7, 1938, the youngest of three little ones of a bookkeeper, Francis A. Clines, and also Mary Ellen(Lenihan) Clines.
