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| Weather Bureau Meteorologist Gordon Cartwright |
| Gordon David Cartwright, 97, a meteorologist for the U S Weather Bureau for 46 years who worked in the Arctic, the Antarctic and Hawaii, died Jan 1 of congestive heart failure at Renton Villa assisted living center in Renton, Wash (more) |
| Georgetown Football Coach Edward 'Scotty' Glacken |
| Edward Scott "Scotty" Glacken, 62, a former record setting quarterback at Duke University and the winningest football coach in Georgetown University history, died Dec 27 at his home in Bethesda of hypertensive arteriosclerotic cardiovascular diseas (more) |
| Pookie Hudson, 72, Singer and Songwriter for the Spaniels, Dies |
| Pookie Hudson was the lead singer and songwriter for the doo wop group the Spaniels, who lent his romantic tenor to hits like ?Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight ? (more) |
| Obituaries |
| La Pearle R Philyaw, 88, a retired federal secretary who held several offices in North Brentwood, where she lived, died Dec 26 at Providence Hospital She had congestive heart failure (more) |
| Russell Lowell Mixter: 1906 - 2007 |
| January 19, 2007 For more than a half century, Russell Lowell Mixter inspired generations of students at Wheaton College with his keen intelligence and tenacious wit In what he described as 'creative employment of visual aids,' the longtime biolo (more) |
| Thomas Lyson, 58, Cornell Sociologist Who Studied Rural Towns, Dies |
| Dr Lyson argued that rural towns and small farms could survive economically by selling locally produced goods to regional markets (more) |
| Buchwald delighted in covering absurdity |
| Essentials Homepage 1 week archive: Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Today Photo Galleries Photo Store Multimedia Weather Horoscope Lottery Crossword Sudoku Contact Us Opinions Editorials Blogs Columnists CyberSurveys Forums Autos Autos Insider Auto Sho (more) |
| Bo Yibo, 98; One of China's '8 Immortals' |
| Bo Yibo, the last of the 'Eight Immortals' who led China through economic reforms and the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, has died, an official news agency reported Jan 16 He was 98 Mr Bo's death was announced in a one sentence dispatch by the Xi (more) |
| Naomi Gray -- African American civic leader |
| Naomi Gray, appointed by former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein to the city's first ever Health Commission and considered among 'the Who's Who of strong black women' in the city, has died She was 84 when she died Dec 29 at Laguna Honda Hospita (more) |
| Columnist Art Buchwald dead at 81 |
| Art Buchwald, the Pulitzer Prize winning political satirist, columnist and author of 34 books who built deceptively simple spoofs of modern life on foundations of indignation, has died He was 81 Buchwald, who had seemed to literally laugh in the f (more) |
| Obituary for Common Sense |
| Obituary for Common Sense Friends and relatives would like to express their deepest regrets and condolences in taking part in the funeral and burial of Common Sense who had lived among us for a long, long time Nobody knows his exact age His birth (more) |
| ART BUCHWALD: 1925-2007 - Satirist found humor even at life's end |
| (01 19) 04:00 PST Washington Art Buchwald, the newspaper humor columnist for more than a half century who found new comic material in the issues that come up at the end of life, died of kidney failure Wednesday night at his son's home in Washingto (more) |
| Donald Rice: 1925 - 2007 |
| January 19, 2007 As an associate dean for student affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr Donald Rice set a positive tone for aspiring dentists 'He set the stage for the students to always remember they were dealing with human being (more) |
| Art Buchwald: 1925 - 2007 |
| January 19, 2007 NEW YORK Even in death, Art Buchwald had the last laugh The comic columnist's passing had no sooner been announced Thursday nearly a year later than his doctors had predicted than a video of him appeared on The New York Time (more) |
| What's this all about? Why, it's Buchwald's goodbye |
| January 19, 2007 EDITOR'S NOTE: Art Buchwald asked that this column be distributed by his syndicate, Tribune Media Services, following his death, which came late Wednesday He wrote the column on Feb 8, 2006, after deciding to check into a (more) |
| Weather Bureau Meteorologist Gordon Cartwright |
| Gordon David Cartwright, 97, a meteorologist for the U S Weather Bureau for 46 years who worked in the Arctic, the Antarctic and Hawaii, died Jan 1 of congestive heart failure at Renton Villa assisted living center in Renton, Wash Mr Cartwright w (more) |
| Obituaries |
| Stanley J Kowal, 76, a spacecraft payload engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, died Jan 4 of congestive heart failure at Laurel Regional Hospital He lived in Silver Spring (more) |
| Betty King, editor's wife and logrolling champion, dies at age 84 |
| Betty Ruth King had a beautiful smile and a kindhearted disposition 'She loved people and adored all creatures with four legs,' said James King, her husband of 62 years But when it came to competitive logrolling, she took no prisoners Mrs King, (more) |
| Obituary - Helen Hill, 1971-2007 |
| Helen Hill, 1971 2007 Welcome, Guest [] Playback Helen Hill, 1971 2007 January 22, 2007 News Obituary Helen Hill, 1971 2007 page 6 Experimental filmmaker Helen Hill died when she and her husband Paul Gailiunas were shot, in a seemingly random attac (more) |
| Bob Zawoluk, 76, a Star for St. John?s Basketball, Is Dead |
| Bob Zawoluk was an all American center at St John?s in the early 1950s who became the university?s longtime career scoring leader and endured a troubled life far from the basketball spotlight (more) |
| Obituary - Charmion King, 1925-2007 |
| Charmion King, 1925 2007 Welcome, Guest [] Playback Charmion King, 1925 2007 January 22, 2007 News Obituary Charmion King, 1925 2007 page 6 Charmion King, grande dame of Canadian stage and screen for 60 years, died in Toronto on Jan 6 of complicat (more) |
| WWII vet, engineer always considered Detroit home |
| Essentials Homepage 1 week archive: Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Today Photo Galleries Photo Store Multimedia Weather Horoscope Lottery Crossword Sudoku Contact Us Opinions Editorials Blogs Columnists CyberSurveys Forums Autos Autos Insider Auto Sho (more) |
| Joseph B. Cicero: 1938 - 2007 |
| January 19, 2007 One of Joseph B Cicero's favorite things to do was sip coffee with his wife and watch the ducks at the sprawling Northwest Side nature preserve he helped save from becoming a shopping center, his wife said As the executive direc (more) |
| Satirist Art Buchwald dies at 81 |
| With his trademark wit , Art Buchwald used his newspaper column to skewer politicians in the nation's capital, and over the decades millions of Americans began their morning by reading his unfolding chronicle of history writ small and satirical At (more) |
| Obituaries |
| Austin Roberts Adkinson, 83, a founder and retired executive director of the Life Underwriters Political Action Committee, died of cancer Jan 10 at a nursing home in Harrisonburg, Va (more) |
| Bo Yibo, 98; One of China's '8 Immortals' |
| Bo Yibo, the last of the "Eight Immortals" who led China through economic reforms and the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, has died, an official news agency reported Jan 16 He was 98 (more) |
| Alice Lakwena, Ugandan Rebel, Dies |
| Alice Lakwena was a Ugandan warrior priestess who led an insurgency in the 1980s (more) |
| Obituary: Art Buchwald |
| Art Buchwald, the humorist whose barbed observations on international political and social events entertained millions in the final decades of the 20th century, has secured his last laugh Having announced last year that he was refusing to continue t (more) |
| Georgetown Football Coach Edward 'Scotty' Glacken |
| Edward Scott 'Scotty' Glacken, 62, a former record setting quarterback at Duke University and the winningest football coach in Georgetown University history, died Dec 27 at his home in Bethesda of hypertensive arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease (more) |
| Betty Trezza, 81, Pioneer of Women?s Baseball, Is Dead |
| Betty Trezza escaped her job as a Garment District embroiderer at 17 to play women?s professional baseball and went on to smack a legendary championship winning hit (more) |
| Ron Carey, Comic Actor, Dies at 71 |
| Mr Carey was the pint sized, round faced comic best known as the unjustifiably cocky Police Officer Carl Levitt on the television situation comedy ?Barney Miller ? (more) |
| Obituary: Carol Adams |
| Carol Adams, who has died of cancer aged 58, established the country's first General Teaching Council (GTC) in 2000 As chief executive, she led it until her retirement just before Christmas The GTC's purpose is to regulate teachers; improve standar (more) |
| Obituary -Colossus on the move |
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| Art Buchwald, Whose Humor Poked the Powerful, Dies at 81 |
| Art Buchwald poked fun at the follies of the rich, the famous and the powerful for half a century (more) |
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