Bob Loup: The public figure

was always a lot more to Bob Loup than met the eye. What met the eye — at least from the perspective of a journalist working in the Jewish press — was something of a tough guy. Loup had a commanding baritone voice, the lean physique of a man who knew physical work, a tendency to make direct eye contact and a manner that often leaned toward the forceful, sometimes even gruff, side. He was a straight talker, unhesitant to express himself when he didn’t like something, occasionally including this newspaper, when it covered something or editorialized in a way he didn’t care for. That was just the surface of the man, the side usually glimpsed first. If one heard him speak publicly, or read […]