Sylvia Porter Dies; Reporter And Author

POUND RIDGE, N.Y.

Sylvia Porter, a financial reporter and columnist since 1935, died Wednesday at her home. She was 77.

Miss Porter died of complications from emphysema, said her husband, James Fox.

Miss Porter's New York Daily News column on personal finance was syndicated by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate to newspapers nationwide.

Her 1975 book, Sylvia Porter's Money Book, sold more than 1 million copies. A second edition was published in 1980.

Last year she published "Sylvia Porter's Your Finances in the 1990s," and "Planning Your Retirement" is scheduled for publication in September.

The five-times-a-week column, titled simply "Sylvia Porter," reached about 40 million readers in 450 newspapers worldwide.