Irving R. Levine Dies
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Irving R. Levine, the bow-tied NBC newsman who explained the fine points of economics to millions of viewers for nearly a quarter century, has died. He was 86.
Levine died Thursday, announced Kevin M. Ross, president of Lynn University in Boca Raton. Levine (pronounced luh-VEEN') taught at the school after leaving NBC. Further details of his death were not immediately available.
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He is survived by his wife, Nancy, and their three children, Jeffrey, Daniel and Jennifer.
In a humorous 2001 essay in The New York Times, Levine welcomed the return of the middle initial as epitomized by then-new President George W. Bush.
He recalled that producers trying to shorten a television news story of his "finally suggested I drop the R in my sign-off, Irving R. Levine. I held my ground."
"`No,' I said, 'I'd rather drop the B in NBC.'"
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