Longtime Chicago Sun-Times financial editor Edwin Darby passes away at age 82.

Mr. Darby virtually invented the idea of the "corporate strategy" profile that has become the foundation of modern business journalism.

I didn't really know Ed Darby this way; I knew him as the gently sarcastic gravel voiced father of my near-brother GK. He was a man who drank martinis with my dad, and seemed to me to be from that generation of men slightly older than most of the other parents at my school - men who were fully gray and didn't bank much bunk in conversation, but did enjoy the fading perquisities of a wood-panelled wall, alcohol lunch, boys club era in Chicago business. From this profile it seems Ed Darby comported himself well in that world and aspired to define his field. All I know is he helped raise a son with a kick-ass conscience and a good strong back for making media.