“Dear Abby” – Abigail Van Buren — the pen name of Pauline Friedman Phillips – died yesterday. Her national syndicated advice column was common in the women’s pages of newspapers for decades. In one column, she wrote about one of my favorite women’s page editors Maggie Savoy. Here is a link to the column. I am pleased to see how much attention has been paid to Van Buren’s death as often soft news does not get much respect.