IN his chosen profession, he was larger than life. He may have begun as a cub reporter in Singapore as a fresh-faced 17-year-old but by the time Tan Sri A. Samad Ismail breathed his last, prime ministers came to pay their last respects.
The New Straits Times was his domain. Everyone was terrified of him.
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