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Rowland Evans, the conservative political columnist and CNN host who was teamed for many years with Robert Novak, died Friday of cancer at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was 79.
Evans, a Marine who served in the Solomon Islands during World War II after leaving Yale, worked for Associated Press for 10 years, and was a reporter for the old New York Herald Tribune and Philadelphia Bulletin before becoming a partner with Novak in 1963.
He and Novak wrote a column, "Inside Report," long syndicated by the Chicago Sun-Times, that had as many as 300 clients. And in 1980, Evans joined CNN as co-host with Novak for the discussion program "Evans & Novak."
Evans retired from writing the column regularly in 1993, but continued to appear on CNN. In 1998, Al Hunt of the Wall Street...