 Jack Smith (columnist)

Jack Clifford Smith (August 27, 1916–January 9, 1996) was a Los Angeles journalist, author, and newspaper columnist.His daily column, which ran in the Los Angeles Times for 37 years, expressed "keen observations of the life he loved in ever-surprising Southern California" and was described by former Los Angeles Times Editor Shelby Coffey III as "one of the abiding highlights of the Los Angeles Times."