Veteran press agent John Springer, whose lineup of high-power clients were a who’s who of showbiz and shows, died Tuesday Oct. 30 at New York Hospital of congestive heart failure. He was 85.

Many thanks for John Summers’s extraordinary essay about his long travails in seeking help for his autistic son, Misha. The burdens such parents face are beyond the imagination of the rest of us.

John Springer – a longtime press agent to the stars whose clients ranged from Henry Fonda and Zippy the Chimp to Gallagher’s Steak House and the Players Club – died yesterday at Weill ...