William J. Brink
Age: 89
Summary: former
managing editor of the New York Daily News whose 1975 front-page
headline FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD became an icon of American journalism
and was said by Gerald Ford to have possibly cost him the Presidency in
1976, in which the headline was his interpretation of Ford's refusal to
use federal money to alleviate New York City's 1970's fiscal crisis.
Cause of Death: Congestive heart failure
Born: February 29, 1916
Died: July 1, 2005
Location: Norwalk, Connecticut
