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☆ Richard Lewis, Acerbic Comedian and Character Actor, Dies at 76
  + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
His publicist, Jeff Abraham, said the cause was a heart attack. Mr. Lewis announced last year that he had Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Lewis was among the best-known names in a generation of comedians who came of age during the 1970s and ’80s, marked by a world-weary, sarcastic wit that mapped well onto the urban malaise in which many of them plied their trade. He became a regular on late-night talk shows, favored as much for his tight act as for his casual, open affability as an interviewee. And he was at the forefront of the boom in stand-up comedy that came with the expansion of cable television in the late 1980s.
Persons: Richard Lewis, Robin Hood, HBO’s, ”, Jeff Abraham, Lewis Locations: Los Angeles
☆ Dexter Scott King, Younger Son of Martin Luther King Jr., Dies at 62
  + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Dexter Scott King, who as one of four children of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked closely with — but also frequently fought against — his siblings and the civil rights community over his father’s legacy, died on Monday at his home in Malibu, Calif. The King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta said the cause was prostate cancer. Mr. King was the longtime chairman of the King Center, an institution established by his mother, Coretta Scott King, in 1968 to advance the vision of her husband. Both positions put him at the center of a shifting, byzantine web of alliances and conflicts with his siblings — in particular his brother, Martin Luther King III, and his younger sister, Bernice King — and with his father’s former allies.
Persons: Dexter Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr, —, King, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King III, Bernice King — Organizations: King Center for Nonviolent, King Center Locations: Malibu , Calif, Atlanta, Memphis
☆ Mexican Whiskey Is on the Rise, Powered by Ancient Corn
  + stars: | 2024-01-11 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In September, Gran Maizal also began exporting its whiskey to the United States, home to the world’s best-known corn-based spirit, bourbon — a move that its founders see as both a challenge and an opportunity. “Bourbon has been the center of the popularity and growth of whiskey in the U.S. for the last 20 years,” said Gonzalo de la Pezuela, who founded Gran Maizal with Cesar Ayala. ”So why not invite people to try a high-end whiskey from the birthplace of corn?”Despite their common ingredient, Gran Maizal whiskey is a world apart from traditional bourbons, let alone barley-based whiskeys like Irish and Scotch. In bourbon, the charred oak barrel in which it ages is responsible for most of the flavor; in Gran Maizal, the centerpiece is the corn. “And we quickly were able to say, ‘Well, you know what?
Persons: Gran Maizal, “ Bourbon, ”, Gonzalo de la, Cesar Ayala, de, Ayala, ’ Organizations: Gran Maizal Locations: United States, U.S, Gran
☆ Peter Tarnoff Dies at 86; Diplomat Helped Plot ‘Argo’ Escape from Iran
  + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Peter Tarnoff, a seasoned diplomat whose work behind the scenes for presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton included establishing a secret channel to Fidel Castro and helping arrange the escape of six U.S. Embassy officials from Iran, an escapade later depicted in the 2012 movie “Argo,” died on Nov. 1 at his home in San Francisco. His wife, Mathea Falco, said the cause of death was complications of Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Tarnoff was part of a cohort of Foreign Service officers who, inspired by the words of President John F. Kennedy, joined the American diplomatic corps in the early 1960s. Many of them cut their teeth on assignment in South Vietnam, and several — among them Mr. Tarnoff, Anthony Lake, Frank Wisner II and Richard Holbrooke — went on to play leading roles in the U.S. foreign policy establishment. But while outsize personalities like Mr. Holbrooke, a frequent contender for secretary of state, and Mr. Lake, a national security adviser under Bill Clinton, became famous, Mr. Tarnoff preferred to wield his influence out of the public eye.
Persons: Peter Tarnoff, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Fidel Castro, ”, Mathea Falco, Tarnoff, John F, Kennedy, Anthony Lake, Frank Wisner, Richard Holbrooke —, Mr, Holbrooke Organizations: Embassy, Foreign Service Locations: Iran, San Francisco, South Vietnam, U.S
☆ George Tscherny, Whose Graphic Designs Defined an Era, Is Dead at 99
  + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
George Tscherny, a leading figure in postwar graphic design whose work unified the crisp, clean lines of European modern art with an American commercial pop sensibility, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. His daughter Carla Tscherny confirmed the death. Mr. Tscherny (pronounced CHAIR-nee) started his career in the early 1950s, near the beginning of an extended golden era of American consumerism and corporate growth — a period that demanded new types of advertising. Many of the designers who crafted the signature images of the era were European immigrants, often refugees like Mr. Tscherny, who brought a familiarity with the latest in modern art and design. Their work graced advertising campaigns, produced on Madison Avenue, that pushed cigarettes and toothpaste and jet travel into American homes.
Persons: George Tscherny, Carla Tscherny, Tscherny Locations: American, Manhattan, Madison
☆ Philip Meyer, Reporter Who Pioneered Data-Driven Journalism, Dies at 93
  + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Philip Meyer, a former reporter who pioneered new ways to incorporate data, quantitative methods and computers into investigative journalism, died on Saturday at his home in Carrboro, N.C., a suburb of Chapel Hill. His daughter Melissa Meyer said the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease. With a career spanning the latter half of the 20th century and several years into the 21st, Mr. Meyer was at the center of a revolution within the craft and business of journalism — a revolution that, to a large degree, he helped shape. When he began working as an assistant editor at The Topeka Daily Capital in Kansas in the mid-1950s, computers were room-size, turtle-speed contraptions, and reporting was done mostly through interviews, with the occasional trip to the library or the government records office. Mr. Meyer was among the few reporters who saw the growing power of computers to crunch data and produce new insight into complex questions.
Persons: Philip Meyer, Melissa Meyer, Meyer Organizations: The, The Topeka Daily Capital Locations: Carrboro, N.C, Chapel, The Topeka, Kansas
☆ Anthony Vidler, Architectural Historian Who Reshaped His Field, Dies at 82
  + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Anthony Vidler, an architectural historian who, beginning in the 1960s, reshaped his field by setting aside dry chronologies of styles and movements for an interdisciplinary approach borrowing from psychoanalysis, French literary theory and cultural studies, died on Oct. 19 at his home in Manhattan. His wife, the literary critic Emily Apter, said the cause was B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Mr. Vidler, who was born in Britain during World War II, was part of a generation of European and Latin American architectural historians who arrived in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, bringing with them new, theory-driven viewpoints about architecture as a realm of ideas and not just design. Sometimes cast as architecture’s version of the British Invasion, scholars like Mr. Vidler, Kenneth Frampton and Alan Colquhoun settled in New York City and in architectural programs at a small number of institutions, above all Princeton University, where Mr. Vidler taught for almost 20 years and remained affiliated for decades. He also served as dean of the architecture schools at Cornell, from 1997 to 1998, and Cooper Union, from 2001 to 2013.
Persons: Anthony Vidler, Emily Apter, Vidler, Kenneth Frampton, Alan Colquhoun Organizations: Princeton University, Cornell, Cooper Union Locations: Manhattan, Britain, United States, British, New York City
☆ Anita A. Summers, Economist, Dies at 98; Brought Rigor to Public Policy
  + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Anita A. Summers, an economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who injected quantitative rigor into a wide variety of public policy topics, including zoning, education and tax incentives, died on Sunday at her home in Gladwyne, Pa. She was 98. Her son Lawrence H. Summers, the economist and former secretary of the Treasury, confirmed the death. Though she spent much of her career in academia, Mrs. Summers was far from a hidebound intellectual. She was the founding chairwoman of Wharton’s public policy and management department, the first of its kind at a business school. (It is now called the department of business economics and public policy.)
Persons: Anita, Summers, Lawrence H Organizations: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Treasury, Wharton, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Locations: Gladwyne, Pa
☆ Victor R. Fuchs, ‘Dean’ of American Health Care Economists, Dies at 99
  + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Victor R. Fuchs, whose comprehensive grasp of the challenges facing the United States health care system, and eloquence in explaining those challenges to policymakers and the general public, made him what many called the “dean” of American health care economists, died on Saturday at his home on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. Fuchs was best known for a slim, erudite book published in 1975 with the attention-grabbing title “Who Shall Live? Health, Economics and Social Choice.” He was among the first to articulate in clear, layman’s prose why the United States was in the midst of rapidly rising health care costs, while costs in other countries stayed manageable. The book has become required reading among physicians, health economists and anyone interested in the knotty issue of American health care, and it has never been out of print. Dr. Fuchs showed that the real problem facing the country was not health care coverage but health care costs; America, he wrote, was spending more and more without achieving better health outcomes.
Persons: Victor R, Fuchs, Fred Organizations: Stanford University, Health Locations: United States, Palo Alto, Calif, America
☆ Jules Melancon, Oyster Farmer Who Tried Something New, Dies at 65
  + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
His father, Loyman Melancon, said the cause was metastatic cancer. Mr. Melancon spent most of his life farming oysters the old-fashioned way, working a dredge across the bottom of the shallow, brackish waters of the lower Mississippi River Delta. He captained his own 65-foot steel-bottom boat, My Melanie, named for his wife and returned every evening sagging under the weight of the day’s catch. In his prime, the ursine Mr. Melancon would lug two 120-pound sacks of oysters onto a truck. But it was lucrative, too: He’d sell 400 of those bags in a day, at up to $15 a bag, to canneries and wholesalers that shipped worldwide.
Persons: Jules Melancon, Loyman Melancon, Melancon, Melanie Locations: Louisiana, New Orleans, Cutoff, La, Mississippi
☆ Isabel Crook, 107, Dies; Her Life in China Spanned a Century of Change
  + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Her son Carl Crook said the cause of death, in a hospital, was pneumonia. Mrs. Crook was among the last of a generation of Westerners born to missionaries in China in the decades before the Japanese invasion, World War II and the subsequent Communist revolution. But others, including Mrs. Crook, perceived the Communists as saviors who were lifting the country out of colonial squalor. (Still others, like the American diplomat John Paton Davies, made famous as a target of McCarthy-era attacks, fell somewhere in between.) As an anthropologist, Mrs. Crook saw herself as an observer of social change; as a Communist, she saw herself as an agent of it.
Persons: Isabel Crook, Carl Crook, Crook, Henry Luce, . Crook, saviors, John Paton Davies, McCarthy Organizations: Communists, Communist Locations: China, Communist, Beijing, American
☆ John Warnock, Inventor of the PDF, Dies at 82
  + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
John Warnock, a founder of Adobe Systems whose innovations in computer graphics, including the ubiquitous PDF, made possible today’s visually rich digital experiences, died on Aug. 19 at his home in Los Altos, Calif. The cause was pancreatic cancer, Adobe, which Dr. Warnock started in 1982 with Chuck Geschke, said in a statement. Until Dr. Warnock and Adobe came along, desktop printing was an arduous, expensive and unsatisfying endeavor. Dr. Warnock developed protocols that came loaded into desktop printers themselves, and that accurately rendered what a computer sent them. Adobe’s first such protocol, PostScript, went into Apple’s revolutionary LaserWriter, released in 1985, and within a few years it was the industry standard.
Persons: John Warnock, Warnock, Chuck Geschke, Dr, Adobe’s Organizations: Adobe Systems, Adobe Locations: Los Altos, Calif
☆ Ada Deer, Native American Voice Inside Government and Out, Dies at 88
  + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Ada Deer, a member of the Menominee tribe in Wisconsin and a leading figure in the movement for greater Native American sovereignty since the 1960s, a role she played both as a critic of the federal government and as a top official within it, died on Tuesday in Fitchburg, Wis., a suburb of Madison. She was 88. Ben Wikler, her godson and the chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, confirmed her death, at a hospital. She had been in hospice care since July. Deer racked up a long list of firsts over the course of her life.
Persons: Ada Deer, Ben Wikler, Deer Organizations: Democratic Party of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, of Indian Affairs, Washington , D.C Locations: Ada, Menominee, Wisconsin, Fitchburg, Wis, Madison, Washington ,
☆ Joann Meyer, Longtime Editor of a Besieged Newspaper, Dies at 98
  + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Joann Meyer, who spent nearly 60 years as a reporter, columnist, editor and associate publisher at The Marion County Record in Kansas, died on Saturday at her home, a day after the police searched the newspaper’s offices. She was 98. Her son, Eric Meyer, the newspaper’s publisher, confirmed the death. The newspaper, which said it had received the document from an anonymous source, verified the information, but Mr. Meyer decided not to publish an article about it. Nevertheless, on Friday morning a judge issued a warrant permitting the police to search the Meyer residence and the newspaper’s offices for evidence of identity theft and the “illegal use of a computer.”
Persons: Joann Meyer, Eric Meyer, —, Meyer Organizations: Marion County Record Locations: Marion, Kansas
☆ Martin Walser, 92, Dies; Among the Last Postwar German Literary Titans
  + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Martin Walser, among the last of a generation of acerbic, socially engaged novelists who dominated the German literary scene after World War II, died on July 26 in Überlingen, Germany, a city on Lake Constance, along the Swiss border. His publisher, Rowohlt, announced his death in a statement but did not provide a cause. Alongside writers like Henrich Böll, Günter Grass and Siegfried Lenz, Mr. Walser wrote essays, plays and novels that skewered what they saw as the complacent conservatism of Germany as it rebuilt itself into an economic powerhouse during the 1950s and ’60s. “If one were to cite an example of historically conscious, committed writing in postwar German literature, who else would spring to mind than Martin Walser?” President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany wrote after Mr. Walser’s death. In 1981, he received the Georg Büchner Prize, the highest literary honor in Germany.
Persons: Martin Walser, Rowohlt, Henrich Böll, Siegfried Lenz, Walser, Frank, Walter Steinmeier, “ Ein, Georg Büchner Locations: Überlingen, Germany, Lake Constance, Swiss
☆ Charles J. Ogletree Jr., 70, Dies; at Harvard Law, a Voice for Equal Justice
  + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a Harvard law professor who helped reframe debates around criminal justice, school desegregation and reparations during the 1990s and 2000s, all the while mentoring a new generation of Black lawyers that included President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, died on Friday at his home in Odenton, Md. Colette Phillips, a representative of the Ogletree family, said the cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Professor Ogletree was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s in 2015 and publicly announced his condition a year later. A son of California tenant farmers and the first in his family to graduate from high school, Professor Ogletree rose from poverty to become one of the most prominent civil rights lawyers in the country, leaving a mark on the courtroom and the classroom. As a litigator, he defended clients both famous and unknown, including Tupac Shakur and the survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, whom he helped to sue the city and the state of Oklahoma for restitution in 2003.
Persons: Charles J, Ogletree Jr, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Colette Phillips, Ogletree, Tupac Shakur Locations: Odenton, Md, California, Tulsa, Oklahoma
☆ William H. Dilday Jr., First Black TV Station Manager in U.S., Dies at 85
  + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
William H. Dilday Jr., a Boston TV executive who moved to Jackson, Miss., in 1972 to manage the city’s NBC affiliate, becoming the country’s first Black person to run a commercial television station, died on July 27 in Newton, Mass. His daughter Kenya Dilday said that he died at a hospital from complications after a fall. The inquiry came after eight years of litigation by the United Church of Christ and a group of Black citizens against the station, which was owned by a local insurance company. Like many TV stations in the Jim Crow-era South, WLBT had given scant coverage to the civil rights movement, or to the lives and concerns of Black Mississippians in general. It refused to use courtesy titles when interviewing Black people, and once cut off a segment with Thurgood Marshall, replacing it with a sign reading, “Sorry — Cable Trouble.”
Persons: William H, Dilday Jr, Kenya Dilday, Dilday, Jim Crow, WLBT, Thurgood Marshall, ” Organizations: Boston, NBC, United Church of Christ Locations: Jackson, Miss, Newton ,, WLBT, Mississippi’s
☆ Dermot Doran, Priest Who Rallied Aid for Biafran Airlift, Dies at 88
  + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The cargo plane flew in low over southeastern Nigeria, its lights out, its radio off, its pilot navigating by the glow of refinery flares along the coast. On the ground, a team of boys suddenly ran out of the bush to light rows of kerosene lamps to guide the craft toward the tiny airstrip, just 75 feet wide and 1,200 feet long. Aboard were 26 tons of antibiotics, flour and salted fish, as well as a 34-year-old Irish priest named Dermot Doran. Father Doran was one of 1,000 priests and nuns, mostly from Ireland, who had been working in the area when the fighting broke out. Overnight, they pivoted from their peacetime roles as educators — Father Doran had been a high school principal — to aid workers during one of the 20th century’s worst humanitarian crises.
Persons: Dermot Doran, Father Doran Organizations: Nigerian Army Locations: Nigeria, Biafra, Ireland
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