RICHARD STROUT, JOURNALIST, DIES AT AGE OF 92

Richard L. Strout, a journalist who covered every president from Warren G. Harding to Ronald Reagan, died

Sunday. He was 92 and had been hospitalized since an Aug. 8 fall.Strout wrote the political column "TRB from Washington" in the New Republic magazine from 1943 to 1983. The column was also syndicated to newspapers.

Strout reported for the Christian Science Monitor from 1922 to 1984 from the newspaper's home office in Boston and then from Washington.

Survivors include his wife, Ernestine; five children; 11 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. His first wife died in 1932.