Morton Moss; Former L.A. Examiner Columnist

Morton Moss, 77, former sports editor and sports and television columnist for the old Los Angeles Examiner and later the combined Herald Examiner newspapers. Moss, who also was a published poet under the name Moss Herbert, came to Los Angeles from the New York Post and the old Hearst International News Service in New York in 1941 and began writing a sports column for the Examiner while editing the sports section. When the Examiner and Herald Express merged in 1962, Moss became TV editor and columnist and later telegraph editor until his retirement in 1979. On Nov. 9 in Los Angeles.