Items by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Katie Beckett, Who Inspired Health Reform, Dies at 34
Posted: May 23rd, 2012, 3:37pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, called Ms. Beckett “an inadvertent pioneer in the civil rights movement for people with disabilities.”
NYT > Sports
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Bill Jenkins, 81, Drag Racing Driver and Innovator, Dies
Posted: April 3rd, 2012, 10:54pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Jenkins, an inductee in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, helped lift the National Hot Rod Association from the streets to the professional track.
NYT > Business
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Robert B. Cohen Dies at 85; Founded the Hudson News Chain
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:10am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Cohen was president of the Hudson County News Company, a newspaper distributorship, when it went into the retail field in the mid-1970s by taking over a newsstand at the Newark airport.
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Gianpiero Moretti, Modernizer of Racecar Steering Wheels, Dies at 71
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 9:00pm EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Moretti started his automotive accessories company Momo in 1966, and it expanded to make an array of racing products.
NYT > Sports
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Joseph Mattioli, the Founder of Pocono Raceway, Dies at 86
Posted: January 28th, 2012, 11:29pm EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Mattioli, tired of the daily grind, bought a spinach farm in northeast Pennsylvania in 1960 and transformed it into one of the primary stock-car racetracks.
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Joseph Mattioli, the Founder of Pocono Raceway, Dies at 86
Posted: January 28th, 2012, 11:29pm EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Mattioli, tired of the daily grind, bought a spinach farm in northeast Pennsylvania in 1960 and transformed it into one of the primary stock-car racetracks.
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Joseph Mattioli, the Founder of Pocono Raceway, Dies at 86
Posted: January 28th, 2012, 11:29pm EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Mattioli, tired of the daily grind, bought a spinach farm in northeast Pennsylvania in 1960 and transformed it into one of the primary stock-car racetracks.
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Byron Donzis, Inventor of Football Flak Jacket, Dies at 79
Posted: January 19th, 2012, 3:24am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Donzis took plenty of hits so quarterbacks would be able to withstand them.
NYT > Business
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Richard Threlkeld, Award-Winning Journalist, Dies at 74
Posted: January 13th, 2012, 11:16pm EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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In his 33 years as a correspondent for CBS and ABC News, Mr. Threlkeld reported on wars, presidential campaigns, assassinations and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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William P. Carey, Leader in Commercial Real Estate, Dies at 81
Posted: January 7th, 2012, 12:42am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Carey was the founder of W. P. Carey & Company, an investment management firm that innovatively used the sale-leaseback model.
NYT > Health
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T. Franklin Williams, Early Geriatric Specialist, Dies at 89
Posted: December 9th, 2011, 12:10am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Dr. Williams was a former director of the National Institute on Aging and a longtime professor at the University of Rochester.
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T. Franklin Williams, Early Geriatric Specialist, Dies at 90
Posted: December 4th, 2011, 1:43am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Dr. Williams was a former director of the National Institute on Aging and a longtime professor at the University of Rochester.
NYT > Business
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Robert Schaeberle, Nabisco Chief, Dies at 88
Posted: October 11th, 2011, 12:13am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Schaeberle, who worked at Nabisco for 40 years, led the company through two mergers.
NYT > Health
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Bruce Dan, 64, Dies; Helped Link Toxic Shock and Tampons
Posted: September 12th, 2011, 2:17am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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As a member of a federal task force, Dr. Dan acted as a disease detective, delving into the daily habits and medical histories of victims.
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Paul Meier, Statistician Who Revolutionized Medical Trials, Dies at 87
Posted: August 14th, 2011, 2:10am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Dr. Meier was an influential advocate of “randomization,” which helped reduce bias in clinical tests of drugs and treatments.
NYT > Sports
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Mika Myllyla, Olympic Skier in Doping Scandal, Dies at 41
Posted: July 5th, 2011, 9:25pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Myllyla, a cross-country skier who became a national sports hero in Finland before leaving the sport in disgrace, was found dead in his home Tuesday.
NYT > Health
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G. A. Marlatt, Advocate of Shift in Treating Addicts, Dies at 69
Posted: March 21st, 2011, 11:50pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Marlatt challenged the belief that substance addiction is incurable and can be controlled only by abstinence.
NYT > Sports
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Andy Jurinko, Painter Whose Art Memorialized Ballparks, Dies at 71
Posted: February 26th, 2011, 6:50pm EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Jurinko specialized in baseball scenes from 1946 to 1960, like the Ebbets Field sign for Abe Stark’s clothing store.
NYT > Business
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Milton M. Levine, 97, Inventor of Ant Farm, Dies
Posted: January 30th, 2011, 2:20am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Recalling how as a boy he had collected ants in jars at his uncle’s farm in Pennsylvania, he told his brother-in-law, “We should make an antarium.”
NYT > Health
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Eleanor Galenson, Expert on Children’s Sexual Identity, Dies at 94
Posted: January 29th, 2011, 9:47pm EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Dr. Galenson and a colleague concluded that children make the discovery of genital difference between the ages of 15 to 19 months. Freud had postulated 4 to 5 years old.
NYT > Business
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Gordon Murray, Retired Wall St. Executive, Dies at 60; Wrote Investment Guide
Posted: January 21st, 2011, 3:23am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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A cancer patient, Mr. Murray said writing “The Investment Answer,” a guide for laymen, probably added days to his life.
NYT > Health
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Robert W. McCollum, Dean of Dartmouth Medical School, Dies at 85
Posted: September 26th, 2010, 1:30am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Dr. McCollum made significant contributions to the understanding of viral diseases, including polio, hepatitis and mononucleosis.
NYT > Business
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Wallace Turner, Prize-Winning Reporter, 89
Posted: September 19th, 2010, 7:00pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Turner, shared a Pulitzer Prize for exposing corruption in Portland, Ore., as a reporter there, and later illuminated the inner workings of the Mormon Church while covering the American West for The New York Times.
NYT > Sports
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Dodge Morgan, Who Sailed Around World, Dies at 78
Posted: September 18th, 2010, 3:20am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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The 1986 voyage — which lasted 150 days 1 hour 6 minutes — shattered the previous record of 292 days set by a British sailor.
NYT > Business
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David Rowland, Maker of a Tidily Stacked Chair, Dies at 86
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 2:15am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Rowland’s invention, which was an alternative to the folding chair, made it possible to store many chairs in a small space.
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Morrie Yohai, ‘Mr. Cheez Doodles,’ Dies at 90
Posted: August 3rd, 2010, 1:10am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Yohai insisted on sharing the acclaim as the snack’s developer with colleagues at the factory he owned in the Bronx.
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Eunice Johnson Dies at 93; Gave Ebony Its Name
Posted: January 9th, 2010, 7:51pm EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mrs. Johnson was the founder of the grand traveling tour called Ebony Fashion Fair, as well as a force behind Ebony and Jet magazines.
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Art Bartlett, Founder of Century 21 Real Estate, Dies at 76
Posted: January 7th, 2010, 12:44am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Bartlett was among the first to enable hundreds, and later thousands, of brokers working from their own offices to compete with regional and national chains.
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Peter R. Scanlon, Who Led Coopers When Big 8 Ruled Auditing, Is Dead at 78
Posted: December 11th, 2009, 1:53am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Scanlon shunned the merger mania that engulfed the accounting profession but expanded its international franchise.
NYT > Sports
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Glenn Remick, 58, Darts Promoter, Dies
Posted: November 18th, 2009, 9:37pm EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Remick became a professional darting promoter in 1977 when he opened a dart supply store in Holyoke, Mass., and founded the Western Massachusetts Darting Association.
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Glenn Remick, 58, Darts Promoter, Dies
Posted: November 18th, 2009, 9:37pm EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Remick became a professional darting promoter in 1977 when he opened a dart supply store in Holyoke, Mass., and founded the Western Massachusetts Darting Association.
NYT > Business
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Frank Batten Sr., Media Executive and Founder of Weather Channel, Dies at 82
Posted: September 10th, 2009, 10:22pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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From 1967 until 1998, Mr. Batten was chairman of Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises), a company that owns newspapers, television stations and classified advertising publications.
NYT > Sports
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Merlyn Mantle, Who Was Married to Yankees Great for 43 Years, Dies at 77
Posted: August 12th, 2009, 1:34am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Merlyn and Mickey Mantle met in 1949 when he was a star player at Commerce (Okla.) High School and she was a cheerleader at archrival Picher High School.
NYT > Business
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Jimmy Bedford, Guardian of Jack Daniel’s, Dies at 69
Posted: August 11th, 2009, 12:47am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Bedford was the sixth master distiller in the 143-year history of the Jack Daniel’s distillery.
NYT > Health
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Dr. Thomas Dao, Expert on Treatment of Breast Cancer, Dies at 88
Posted: July 25th, 2009, 7:52pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Dr. Dao opposed radical mastectomy in favor of more conservative surgery and worked with a Nobel laureate on research into the role of hormones in human cancer.
NYT > Sports
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Lou Pagliaro, National Table Tennis Champion, Dies at 90
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 11:58pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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At just over 5 feet tall but with nimble footwork and a rocketing forehand, Mr. Pagliaro won the national championship in 1940-42 and 1952.
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Lou Pagliaro, National Table Tennis Champion, Dies at 90
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 11:58pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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At just over 5 feet tall but with nimble footwork and a rocketing forehand, Mr. Pagliaro won the national championship in 1940-42 and 1952.
NYT > Health
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Alan Berkman, 63, Activist Doctor, Dies
Posted: June 15th, 2009, 1:01am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Dr. Berkman was a Vietnam-era radical who founded a group that helped make AIDS medications available to some of the world’s poorest people.
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Alexander G. Bearn, Pioneer in Genetic Disease, Dies at 86
Posted: May 27th, 2009, 1:47am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Dr. Bearn was a physician and scientist whose research on a rare liver disease in the 1950s helped lay the groundwork for the field of human biochemical genetics.
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Rodger McFarlane, Who Led AIDS-Related Groups, Dies at 54
Posted: May 19th, 2009, 2:02am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. McFarlane was the first executive director of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, a group that was an early advocate for public and private research to deal with the disease.
NYT > Business
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Louis Lowenstein, Professor of Business Law and Critic of Wall St., Dies at 83
Posted: April 25th, 2009, 6:36pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Lowenstein, a business law professor at Columbia, became known for exposing “a profound conflict of interest” in the mutual fund industry’s structure.
NYT > Sports
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Lloyd Ruby, Star-Crossed Indy 500 Racer, Dies at 81
Posted: March 25th, 2009, 2:11am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Ruby was one of the best — and most star-crossed — Indy 500 auto racers in history, and was most famous for a race he never won.
NYT > Business
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David G. Taylor, Banker Who Helped Engineer a Bailout, Dies at 79
Posted: March 14th, 2009, 2:06am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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In 1984 Mr. Taylor helped negotiate what was then the biggest federal bailout of a financial institution.
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Aaron Gural, Real Estate Executive, Dies at 91
Posted: March 14th, 2009, 1:30am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Gural was the longtime chairman of Newmark & Company, one of New York’s largest commercial real estate companies, from 1957 to 1998.
NYT > Home Page
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James Bellows, Who Promoted New Journalism, Dies at 86
Posted: March 7th, 2009, 5:39am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Bellows insisted on stylish writing and bold, clean graphics while he was the editor of three major newspapers, including The New York Herald Tribune.
NYT > Business
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Wilbert Tatum, Activist Editor, Dies at 76
Posted: February 27th, 2009, 3:33am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Tatum was the often provocative former publisher and editor of The New York Amsterdam News, the oldest and best-known of the city’s black newspapers.
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Victor Zarnowitz, Who Faulted Business Forecasts, Dies at 89
Posted: February 26th, 2009, 2:49am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Dr. Zarnowitz was an expert on business cycles who for decades traced the history of economic predictions — and often found the forecasting faulty.
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Nonnie Moore, Fashion Editor at Magazines, Dies at 87
Posted: February 25th, 2009, 2:10am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Ms. Moore brought an eclectic mix to the fashion pages of Mademoiselle, Harper’s Bazaar and later the men’s magazine GQ.
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Rob Roy Buckingham, 88, Retired Editor at The Times, Dies
Posted: January 21st, 2009, 2:15am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Buckingham was a former editor-manager of The New York Times News Service, which sent roughly 20,000 words of synopses of Times articles to 50 newspapers a day.
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Howard Pack, 90, Magnate and Innovator in Shipping, Dies
Posted: December 21st, 2008, 3:44am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Pack, who as president and later chairman of Seatrain Lines was a leader in the industry in changing the way ships carry goods from port to port.
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Howard M. Pack, Shipping Magnate, Dies at 90
Posted: December 19th, 2008, 12:47am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Pack led Seatrain Lines, a company whose freight ships led changes in the industry.
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Betty James, Who Named the Slinky Toy, Is Dead at 90
Posted: November 25th, 2008, 12:04am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mrs. James came up with the name for the toy using a dictionary.
NYT > Health
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Florence S. Wald, American Pioneer in End-of-Life Care, Is Dead at 91
Posted: November 14th, 2008, 3:54am EST by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mrs. Wald’s vision of bringing the terminally ill peace of mind and, to whatever extent possible, freedom from pain led to the opening of the first palliative care hospice in the United States.
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Paul G. Rogers, ‘Mr. Health’ in Congress, Is Dead at 87
Posted: October 15th, 2008, 3:25am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Rogers was called Mr. Health by his fellow congressmen for his leading role in passing dozens of measures promoting health care and the environment.
NYT > Business
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Nancy Hicks Maynard Dies at 61; A Groundbreaking Black Journalist
Posted: September 23rd, 2008, 1:15pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Ms. Hicks Maynard was the first black woman to be a reporter at The New York Times and with her husband bought and published The Oakland Tribune.
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Clay T. Whitehead, Guide of Policy That Helped Cable TV, Is Dead at 69
Posted: July 31st, 2008, 1:09am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Whitehead laid the groundwork for Open Skies, the policy that led to the creation of the domestic satellite system that brought cable television into millions of American homes.
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Sidney Craig, 76, a Founder of Jenny Craig, Dies
Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 9:35pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Craig, with his wife, Genevieve, founded Jenny Craig Inc., a successful weight-loss chain operating 600 centers in four countries.
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Kenneth Macke, Who Led Target, Dies at 69
Posted: July 1st, 2008, 12:52am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Macke was a former chairman and chief executive of the Dayton Hudson Corporation, the forerunner of the retail giant Target Corporation.
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Wilber Hardee, Is Dead at 89; Founded Restaurants
Posted: June 25th, 2008, 10:49pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Hardee was a farm boy turned grill cook who went on to open the first Hardee’s hamburger stand in 1960, starting a chain that now has nearly 2,000 restaurants.
NYT > Sports
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Louise Firouz, Horse Breeder, Dies at 74
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 12:54am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mrs. Firouz in 1965 discovered a pony-size Caspian horse, from a breed that had long been thought extinct, which were found to be a precursor or modern racehorses.
NYT > Business
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Claude Rosenberg, Advocate for Philanthropy, Is Dead at 80
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 9:39pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Rosenberg developed a model that estimated that if people gave what they could afford, we would increase charitable giving in the U.S. by $100 billion a year.
NYT > Health
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Harvey Picker, 92, Pioneer in Patient-Centered Care, Is Dead
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:18am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Picker, who led the Picker X-Ray Company, also started a foundation now considered a leader in promoting patient-friendly medical care.
NYT > Business
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Richard Burke, Founder of Trek Bicycle Company, Is Dead at 73
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 3:14am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Burke’s company capitalized on the luster of Lance Armstrong’s victories in the Tour de France to reshape the way top-of-the-line bikes are manufactured.
NYT > Sports
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Richard Burke, Founder of Trek Bicycle Company, Is Dead at 73
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 3:14am EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI
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Mr. Burke’s company capitalized on the luster of Lance Armstrong’s victories in the Tour de France to reshape the way top-of-the-line bikes are manufactured.