Hank & Barbara: Together again

I’ve always admired great marriages. Happy and successful couples are beautiful things and harder to find these days than diamonds on the beach. They remind me of great comedy and dance teams: Abbott and Costello, Hope and Crosby, Burns and Allen, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, William Powell and Myrna Loy.

With the passing of Barbara Greenspun this week at age 88, I am reminded not only of the obvious, that she was beautiful, classy, and smart, but also that she was the impeccably polished half of the great marriage team of Hank and Barbara.

Check any photo featuring the feisty newspaper publisher and his elegant lady, and I swear you’ll get the sense Hank knew he’d married way out of his league.

Now Hank and Barbara are together again. And I’ll bet anything Hank is grinning like a cat that ate two canaries.