Clive Barrow, senior Telegraph sub who refined an avalanche of news stories in the days of hot metal

Clive Barrow spent his career on the Telegraph's subs' desk during the hot metal era, reworking copy that ranged from brief items to sprawling features into print-ready shape.

Colleagues remembered his editorial philosophy as a careful calibration of taste: vulgarity should be dosed only enough to raise, at most, the ghost of a smile in a cathedral deanery.

The trade he practiced belonged to a print production process now largely extinct, and his obituary serves as a small marker for a vanished newsroom craft.

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