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A week's worth of Globe obituaries
Togo W. Tanaka, 93, reporter at Japanese internment camp
LOS ANGELES - Togo W. Tanaka, a former journalist and businessman whose reports on life inside the Manzanar internment camp illuminated divisions in the Japanese-American community after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the tensions that eventually erupted in riots at the World War II-era detention center, has died. He was 93. (Los Angeles Times, 7/5/09)
Geraldine McLaughlin, 92; organized teas for JFK’s run for Senate
The thank you letters Geraldine (McInerney) J. McLaughlin treasured came from John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, for her help getting the ambitious Brookline native elected to the US Senate. (Globe Correspondent, 7/5/09)
W. Hutchinson, editor stymied during attack of Pearl Harbor
WASHINGTON - William E. Hutchinson, 92, a retired Foreign Service officer who was a Honolulu newspaper editor when Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, died of bladder cancer June 20 at his home in Gaithersburg, Md. (Washington Post, 7/5/09)
Louis D. Smullin; pioneered microwave, radar research
For decades, until he reached his 80s, you could count on seeing Louis D. Smullin nearly every day, pedaling his bicycle to work at the idea-filled laboratories of MIT. The routine image of the man, employing a simple form of transport, marked a sharp contrast to the work he did inside, where he spent a career innovating and orchestrating landmark ... (Globe Correspondent, 7/5/09)
Kenneth Reusser; shot down 5 times in 253 combat missions
LOS ANGELES - Retired Marine Colonel Kenneth Reusser, who flew 253 combat missions in three wars and was shot down five times, died June 20 in Clackamas, Ore. He was 89. (Los Angeles Times, 7/4/09)
Molly Kool, first woman to captain ship, will be buried at sea
BANGOR, Maine - The first woman in North America to become a licensed ship captain will be buried at sea today in the waters of New Brunswick, Canada. (Boston Globe, 7/4/09)
Bela Kiraly, 97; led forces in Hungary against Soviets
BUDAPEST - Bela Kiraly, one of the military leaders of Hungary’s short-lived anti-Soviet revolution in 1956, has died, the government said. He was 97. (Associated Press, 7/4/09)
Allen Klein, at 77; sharp-elbowed agent of music icons
LOS ANGELES - Infamous record label owner Allen Klein, who played a key role in the demise of the Beatles and also nabbed control of some of the Rolling Stones’s best-known songs, died in New York yesterday after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease, a spokesman said. He was 77. (Reuters, 7/4/09)
Helen Codere, 91; anthropologist studied Rwanda, Pacific Northwest
Helen Frances Codere showed her independent spirit and interest in how others live while growing up in St. Paul. A teenager who had read Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,’’ she told her father she would like to live alone in a cabin in their woods, as Thoreau had done at Walden Pond. (Globe Staff, 7/4/09)
Angelo Furnari, 79, former chapter president of Order Sons of Italy in America
Angelo Furnari, the former president of the Massachusetts chapter of the nation’s oldest and largest Italian heritage organization, died May 25 of prostate cancer at the Boston Center for Rehabilitation in Roslindale. He was 79. (Globe Correspondent, 7/3/09)
Shi Pei Pu, at 70; Chinese singer, spy, 'M. Butterfly'
WASHINGTON - Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese operatic soprano who along with his French lover was convicted of espionage and whose complicated affair inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway play “M. Butterfly’’ and the movie of the same title, died June 30 in Paris. An aide confirmed Mr. Shi’s death to Agence France-Presse and said he was 70. (Washington Post, 7/3/09)
O. Carl Simonton; advocated mind-body link to cancer care
LOS ANGELES - Dr. O. Carl Simonton, a radiation oncologist who popularized the mind-body connection in fighting cancer and helped push the once- controversial notion into mainstream medicine, has died. He was 66. (Los Angeles Times, 7/3/09)
Mary LaFauci; late in career, left job and realized long-held goal to be nurse
Several years ago at 59, an age when many hope to be easing into early retirement, Mary LaFauci left her longtime job in healthcare administration and stepped into the nursing career she had wanted four decades earlier. (Globe Staff, 7/3/09)
Herbert Klein, was director of communications for Nixon
SAN DIEGO - Herbert G. Klein, Richard Nixon’s ex-White House director of communications and a former editor for Copley Newspapers, has died. He was 91. (Associated Press, 7/2/09)
Robert Peebles, 83, school superintendent, clarinet player
WASHINGTON - Robert W. Peebles, 83, an affable, jazz-playing school administrator who served in Boston and Marshfield before moving to Connecticut in the 1970s, died Tuesday at Inova Alexandria Hospital in Virginia. He had pneumonia. (Washington Post, 7/2/09)
Mary Nowak, oldest Salem Citizen Police graduate, 99
Mary (Halik) Nowak of Salem earned her high school diploma at age 74. The daughter of Polish immigrants wanted the education she missed when she had to leave the Salem schools after the eighth grade to work in a textile mill. (Globe Correspondent, 7/2/09)
In brief
►ROAF, Andree Layton Roaf - In Little Rock, Wednesday, at 68. The first black woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court, Judge Roaf most recently was the head of the federal Office of Desegregation Monitoring. (Boston Globe, 7/2/09)
Francis Walsh, 81, Northeastern hoop legend
Despite being cut from the Milton High School basketball teams as a freshman and sophomore, Francis X. Walsh was undeterred. (Globe Correspondent, 7/2/09)
Edward Figueiredo, longtime lobsterman, 70
Edward Figueiredo, a longtime lobsterman, died in his Hingham home Tuesday after a nine-month battle with intestinal cancer. He was 70. (Globe Correspondent, 7/2/09)
Harve Presnell, 75, actor in ‘Fargo’ and ‘Molly Brown’
NEW YORK - Harve Presnell, whose booming baritone graced such Broadway musicals as “The Unsinkable Molly Brown’’ and “Annie,’’ died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 75. (Associated Press, 7/2/09)
Alexis Arguello, 57; boxer won 3 titles before epic loss
Alexis Arguello, who battled his way to three world boxing titles in the ring but lost several bouts with personal demons outside the ropes, was found dead early yesterday at his home in Managua, Nicaragua. He was 57. (Los Angeles Times, 7/1/09)
Lyudmila Zykina, Russian singer
Russian folk singer Lyudmila Zykina, a favorite performer of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, died in Moscow yesterday. She was 80. (Bloomberg News, 7/1/09)
Frank Keenan; supported congressional broadcasts
Frank Keenan, 85, a former congressional staff member and an early advocate of broadcasting sessions of Congress, died Saturday at Washington Hospital Center of a pulmonary embolism. (Washington Post, 7/1/09)
Ira Richer, at 70; succeeded as engineer and woodworker
On a Friday in June 2000, Dr. Ira Richer retired from a career in computer networking, which spanned four decades. By the following Monday, he had enrolled as a student in cabinet and furniture making at North Bennett Street School in Boston’s North End. (Globe Correspondent, 7/1/09)
Karl Malden, 97; won Oscar for 'Streetcar Named Desire'
LOS ANGELES - Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage and screen made him a star despite his plain looks, died yesterday, his family said. He was 97. (Associated Press, 7/2/09)
Fayette Pinkney, 61, anchor of the soul group Three Degrees
Fayette Pinkney - an original member of the Three Degrees who lent her strong, soulful voice to the 1970s hits “When Will I See You Again?’’ and “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia),’’ the theme song of the television show “Soul Train’’ - died Saturday in Lansdale, Pa. She was 61. The cause of death was acute respiratory ... (New York Times, 7/1/09)
For the record
Correction: Because of incomplete or incorrect information provided to the Globe, the obituary on Dr. Jonathan Cole on Sunday neglected to mention that he was the superintendent of Boston State Hospital from 1967 to 1973. In addition, the maiden name of Dr. Cole’s mother, Anna (Steckel) Cole, was misspelled. Also, the obituary did not fully describe Dr. Cole’s findings on ... (Boston Globe, 7/1/09)
Pina Bausch, 68; iconoclast fused theater and absurdism into dance
NEW YORK - Pina Bausch, a German choreographer who combined potent drama and dreamlike movement to create a powerful form of dance theater that influenced generations of dancemakers, died yesterday in Wuppertal, Germany. She was 68. (New York Times, 6/30/09)
Mary Lou Forbes, won Pulitzer for her desegregation coverage
WASHINGTON - Mary Lou Forbes, a journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 at the Washington Star for her coverage of Virginia school desegregation and became founding editor of the Washington Times’ Commentary opinion page, died Saturday at Inova Alexandria Hospital in Virginia of breast cancer. She was 83. (Washington Post, 6/30/09)
Anne Marie Quinlivan, Ethics Commission aide
Anne Marie Quinlivan, chief financial officer for the State Ethics Commission, died June 20 in her sleep at her home in Dennis Port. The former Milton resident was 55. (Globe Correspondent, 6/30/09)
Dr. Orrie M. Friedman, 94, biotech pioneer
Weary of life in western Canada, where he supported himself playing poker after graduating from college, Orrie M. Friedman sneaked a ride on a cattle train to Montreal in 1935. Visiting a friend at McGill University, he recalled, stirred the “first quirks of intellectual curiosity’’ in someone who, at that point, was far from scholarly. (Globe Staff, 6/30/09)
For the record
Correction: An obituary yesterday of Ken Roberts by the Washington Post incorrectly reported an early acting credit for Christopher Reeve. Reeve appeared on “Love of Life,’’ not “The Secret Storm.’’ (Boston Globe, 6/30/09)