Nick Carter

For Reuter correspondents of the 1960s to the 1990s, Nick was one of those stalwart figures - with Ronnie Cooper, Jack Henry, Nobby Clarke, Jack Hartzman, Dave Matthew, Jim Flannery, Jim Forrester, Pat Massey - who represented over four decades strength, stability and consistency on The Desk. Nick had the best qualities of all of them, including patience and readiness to listen to the angry complaints of would-be superstars out in the field over some offending rewrite or slight rephrasing of our golden copy and then gently massage bruised egos with a few velvet words of praise and a reminder that deskers, like correspondents, were all fallible in the pursuit of the common aim. We missed him when he moved on to other functions, as we will miss him now at Reuter Society meetings and the Baron’s Bash. ■