Former colleagues remembered her as a 5-foot-3, Keds tennis shoe-clad woman with enormous grit.
The new Denver Police Department Press Room was dedicated to former Denver Post reporter Marilyn Robinson, second from left, and two former DPD public information officers — the late Detective Pete Lombard and his son, former Sgt. Tony Lombard V. Chief Gerry Whitman, left, stands next to Robinson.
“There’s a body in the river. Do we care?” she once chimed to nobody in particular, one of the numerous “Marilynisms” that colleagues compiled. After graduation, she worked briefly for the Seattle Post Intelligencer, where the editor said he already employed two women and had no immediate position for her, prompting her move to Denver in 1956 for a job with The Post.
The Post’s former executive city editor Todd Engdahl remembered her as a perfectionist who constantly pushed to refine stories more. She stood out for her interviewing skills, Engdahl said. “She always seemed to know exactly whom to call for information, whatever the situation. And once she’d reached the right person, Marilyn was a virtuoso of telephone interviewing.
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