Clifton and Frayn Utley,<\/a> two of the city\u2019s most distinguished news commentators in print, on radio and on television in its earliest years. His first job in journalism was at the Sun-Times. A graduate of Westtown School and Carleton College, he spent a year studying Eastern European affairs at the Free University of West Berlin after serving in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\nSurvivors include his wife of 40 years, Gertje R. Utley, two brothers, David Utley of Madison, Wisconsin, and Jonathan Utley of Chicago, four nephews, a niece and three godchildren. Arrangements for a memorial service are pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Garrick Utley, the son of a pioneering Chicago television news couple, began as a copy boy for the Chicago Sun-Times and rose to prominence as a globe-trotting correspondent for three networks, moderator of \u201cMeet the Press\u201d and weekend anchor of \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d and \"Sunday Today.\" Utley, who was 74, died of prostate cancer Thursday... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}