SCOTT SIMON, Host: R.W. Apple, who wrote that dispatch when he was 31, died this week of cancer.
New York Times reporter R.W. "Johnny" Apple died this week from cancer. He was 71. In recent years he was best-known for writing lyrical stories about how people eat around the world. But Apple was a complete reporter and editor, covering the news in New York, Washington, London, Vietnam and all points in-between.