David E. Rosenbaum, a longtime editor and reporter in the Washington Rosenbaum, Doctors had operated on Rosenbaum on Saturday to relieve pressure on his brain. D.C. “David was one of the most accomplished journalists of his generation in Washington,” Taubman said last night. “He Rosenbaum
bureau of the New York Times, died yesterday after being beaten and
robbed Friday night near his home in upper Northwest Washington.
63, died at 7:10 p.m. at Howard University Hospital, where he was
treated for a head injury suffered during the attack on Gramercy Street
NW, said Philip Taubman, chief of the Times’s Washington bureau.
police were canvassing the neighborhood yesterday for clues in the
attack, which occurred in a quiet section between Connecticut and
Wisconsin avenues. No arrests had been made.
could do anything, and he did so many things brilliantly,” Taubman
said. “He was an all-time great, versatile reporter who could tackle
any subject” and wrote about the most abstruse matters, particularly in
financial areas, with “remarkable lucidity, speed” and sophistication.
joined the Washington bureau in 1968 and, with the exception of three
years as an editor in New York, had spent his entire Times career
there. He retired late last month but was to continue contributing to
the Times.