He won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1969 and later joined The New York Times, which eventually fired him. By Michael S. Rosenwald Denny Walsh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
Sheppie Abramowitz, who helped resettle displaced people from around the world as a volunteer, adviser and eventual vice president for the International Rescue Committee, opening the organization ...
Refugee advocate Sheppie Abramowitz working in Thailand, where her husband, Morton I. Abramowitz, was stationed as U.S. ambassador from 1978 to 1981. (Family photo) Sheppie Abramowitz, who helped ...
(CNN)-- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy and a champion of the disabled who founded the Special Olympics, died Tuesday, the Special Olympics said. She was 88.
He played a key role in securing the Montreal Protocol, an international environmental pact to protect the ozone layer by reducing the use of certain chemicals. By Trip Gabriel A May 1985 report ...
Marvin Minsky, one of the early pioneers of neural networks, died on Sunday at the age of 88. The obituary in the Washington Post paints a fantastic picture of his life. Minsky was friends with ...
MONTREAL --Wally Harris, a former NHL referee who in retirement became the League’s first Director of Officials and subsequently an influential, highly respected supervisor of game crews, died ...
Peter Schickele, a Grammy Award-winning composer and wry humorist who presented himself as the world’s leading authority on ...
Fujiko Fujio A, the creator of such popular manga as “Ninja Hattori,” “The Laughing Salesman” and the autobiographical manga “Manga Michi,” has died. He was 88. Born as Motoo Abiko in ...
Albert “Tootie” Heath, a jazz drummer whose intuitive style and precision licks backed greats such as Nina Simone and John Coltrane, and who later joined his brothers in recordings that became ...
Albert “Tootie” Heath performing with the Heath Brothers at the North Sea Jazz Festival in July 2002 in the Netherlands. (Frans Schellekens/Redferns) A previous caption with the first photo ...