Charles ‘Larry’ Glenn; Journalist

Charles “Larry” Glenn, 69, Los Angeles-based journalist for Variety, the New York Times and NBC News. After retiring, he assisted AIDS patients and was an active volunteer with Alcoholics Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous. Born in Portland, Ore., he grew up in Honolulu, where he saved his mother’s life by dragging her into their house when the Japanese strafed the area during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Glenn joined the Navy at 17 and later served in the Air Force during the Korean War. He graduated from the College of Idaho with a degree in political science and moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a reporter for the Hollywood Citizen News. During the 1960s, he was an assistant and a reporter for Gladwin Hill and Los Angeles bureau chief of the New York Times. Glenn worked at NBC from 1971 until 1990 as a writer, editor and news producer. A gifted lyric tenor, he sang for many years in a barbershop group. He also accompanied his Hawaiian love songs on the ukulele. On Jan. 8 in Burbank.