* Abe Mellinkoff; Former San Francisco Chronicle City Editor
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Abe Mellinkoff, 79, who was city editor of the San Francisco Chronicle for 26 years. He joined the Chronicle in 1935 as a reporter and became city editor in 1949. At the time of his death, he was a weekly columnist for the newspaper. On Thursday in San Francisco of a stroke.
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