Editors' note: Jack Thomas died at his home in Cambridge, Mass. on October 1, 2022. He was 83. The text below is a short excerpt from Thomas's radio commentary, which Cognoscenti produced with ...

CNN — Jack Thomas' byline appeared in the Boston Globe for an impressive 60 years. He was a copy boy to start, working for the sports desk as a teenager after a childhood spent delivering papers.

Journalism here in boston has died. Jack thomas did it all at the boston Globe for four decades. He was *** reporter. He was *** columnist, city editor. He was an ombudsman, and if I may add he ...