nickname "Nora Ballsoff". She fought two legal actions against the magazine; she won libel damages of £3,000 but lost a breach of copyright action. Personal life and death Beloff was married to Clifford Makins, a sports editor for The Observer, from 1977 until his death in 1990. She died of a pulmonary embolism secondary to Hodgkin's lymphoma at the Royal Free Hospital, London, in 1997. After her death, Beloff's former editor Donald Trelford wrote that she "had one of the most distinguished careers any woman has had in British journalism". References 1919 births 1997 deaths 20th-century British women writers 20th-century English non-fiction writers English political journalists English women journalists English reporters and correspondents English people of Russian-Jewish descent Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford People educated at King Alfred School, London People from Kensington The Observer people Nora