George S. Baran could handle the English language with rareexpertise despite leaving school after sixth grade to help his familyduring the Depression.
His passion for words included reading the dictionary from coverto cover while he fought his way up a chain of Pacific islands duringWorld War II. He and his buddies invented a game involving thedictionary.
Mr. Baran, a pressroom foreman for the Chicago Daily News, diedJuly 28 in Mesa, Ariz., of a massive brain aneurysm. He had beenlargely confined to a chair for two years by cancer that spread tohis spine. He was 83.
He was born in Chicago in 1919, one of six children of Joseph andMary Baran. His father was a …
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