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I first became familiar with R.W. Apple through Timothy Crouse's great book about journalists covering the 1972 presidential campaign The Boys on the Bus during college. In recent years I found a different R.W. Apple--the peripatetic omnivore of the Times' Dining section with a straightforward, yet conversational writing style, the man who introduced me (and probably many others) to the existence of the mangosteen.

R.W. Apple, a Times Journalist in Full, Dies at 71