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Richard Wade; helped make cities academic subjects; at 87
NEW YORK - Richard C. Wade, who helped put cities on the map as an academic subject and who advised Democratic candidates including Adlai Stevenson, Robert F. Kennedy, and George McGovern, died July 18 at his home on Roosevelt Island in New York City. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Barbara Ann Teer, promoted African-American arts; at 71
NEW YORK - Barbara Ann Teer, who gave up a promising career in commercial entertainment to concentrate on developing African-American culture in Harlem and who founded the National Black Theater there, died Monday in Harlem. She was 71 and died of natural causes, said her daughter, Sade Lythcott. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Edwin I. Firestone, at 86; a dealer in gems, fine taste on Newbury St.
As much a merchant of taste as of gems and antiques, Edwin I. Firestone spent decades deepening Boston's appreciation of jewelry and silver. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Johnny Griffin, 80; Chicago jazz saxophonist lived in Europe
Johnny Griffin, a tenor saxophonist from Chicago whose speed, control, and harmonic acuity made him one of the most talented American jazz musicians of his generation yet who spent most of his career in Europe, died Friday at his home in Availles-Limouzine, a village in France. He was 80 and had lived there for 24 years. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Eugene Dahl, 83; founded Bobcat company
FARGO, N.D. - Eugene Dahl, who helped found the company now known as Bobcat and served as a North Dakota state lawmaker, has died. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Jamiel Alexander Chagra, 63; was mastermind of international drug ring
EL PASO - Drug kingpin Jamiel Alexander "Jimmy" Chagra, accused of leading a 1979 conspiracy to assassinate the federal judge set to preside over his drug trial, has died. He was 63. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Eugene Foster; arranged tests of Jefferson DNA
LOS ANGELES - Dr. Eugene Foster, the retired pathologist who orchestrated the DNA testing that showed that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one of Sally Hemings's children, died Monday at University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, according to his son-in-law Brian Pusser. He was 81. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Stephen P. Whelton
Stephen P. Whelton, teacher of the year at Greater Lowell Technical High School and a longtime Tewksbury resident, died of colon cancer Tuesday at his home. He was 39. (Boston Globe, 7/26/08)
Richard Egbert, criminal defense 'giant,' dies at 61
When New England's power bosses got stuck in the crosshairs of state or federal prosecutors, they called attorney Richard Egbert. (Boston Globe, 7/26/08)
Randy Pausch, 47; computer professor's 'last lecture' became Internet sensation
PITTSBURGH - Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died yesterday. He was 47. (Boston Globe, 7/26/08)
F. Schweihs, reputed mobster
CHICAGO - Frank "The German" Schweihs, reputedly one of Chicago's most feared mob enforcers, has died while awaiting trial on charges he took part in a conspiracy that included numerous organized crime killings. He was 78. (Boston Globe, 7/26/08)
Milton Zaslow; cryptologist, ranking NSA official
WASHINGTON - Early in the Korean War, Milton Zaslow and three other cryptologists working in China for the Armed Forces Security Agency were reading thousands of messages sent over commercial telegraph when they began to notice a large number that said: "Father died. Come at once," or "Mother ill. Come home." (Boston Globe, 7/26/08)
Chuck Stobbs; Senators pitcher threw famous Mantle home run
As a journeyman left-hander for the woeful Washington Senators of the 1950s, Chuck Stobbs had few moments of shining glory. He won 15 games for the lowly team in 1956, but was best known for throwing a pitch that might have traveled farther than any other baseball in big-league history. (Boston Globe, 7/25/08)
Paul Bentley; detective helped arrest Oswald
Dallas police Detective Paul Bentley, who helped arrest presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theater, had a ready retort for those who did not accept the official story that Oswald acted alone. (Boston Globe, 7/25/08)
Donald Paige, 91; preacher dedicated 70 years to his craft
Nobody ever fell asleep during one of the Rev. Donald Paige's sermons. "Papa had a loud, booming voice. . . . Sometimes, he would slam down his fist for emphasis and break the eyeglasses he was holding," Jaclyn Paige of Danvers said about her adored grandfather, who always had a full church. (Boston Globe, 7/25/08)
J. Jackson Walter, 67; former ethics watchdog, preservationist
J. Jackson Walter, 67, a former federal ethics watchdog who made vital contributions to preserving heritage sites, including parks and shipwrecks, while running the National Trust for Historic Preservation for eight years, died July 18 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia after multiple strokes. (Boston Globe, 7/25/08)
In brief
Joseph P. Sullivan Joseph P. Sullivan, a World War II veteran and longtime Arlington resident, died Sunday of heart failure at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton. He was 92. (Boston Globe, 7/25/08)
Larry Haines, 89; soap star won two Daytime Emmys
Larry Haines, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for his 35-year role on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow," has died. He was 89. (Boston Globe, 7/25/08)
Victor A. McKusick, 86, pioneer in human genetics
Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a Johns Hopkins University physician widely regarded as the father of medical genetics, died Tuesday at his home in Baltimore. He was 86 and died of complications from cancer. (Boston Globe, 7/25/08)
Lyall Watson, 69, author, adventurer at edges of science
NEW YORK - Lyall Watson, a maverick scientific polymath and explorer who wrote the best-selling book "Supernature" and introduced the "hundredth monkey" theory to explain the sudden and inexplicable transmission of behavior and ideas across social groups, died June 25 in Gympie, Australia. (Boston Globe, 7/24/08)
Roger Hall, at 89; wrote spy memoir that became cult classic
WASHINGTON - Roger Hall, who wrote "You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger," a wry memoir about World War II spycraft that became a cult classic in intelligence circles and appealed to a wide audience for its irreverence, died Sunday at his home in Wilmington, Del. He was 89 and had congestive heart failure. (Boston Globe, 7/24/08)
Gladys Nederlander, 83, theater and TV producer
NEW YORK - Gladys Nederlander, a theater and television producer, died Monday in New York. She was 83 and lived in Manhattan, Palm Beach, Fla., and East Hampton, N.Y. (Boston Globe, 7/24/08)
David E. Cawood; helped run Final Four for NCAA
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - David E. Cawood, a former high-ranking NCAA executive who helped run the Final Four for more than two decades, died Sunday at his home in Louisville. He was 64. (Boston Globe, 7/24/08)
Robert Berning; wine buyer transformed Trader Joe's
LOS ANGELES - Robert Berning, who as the principal wine buyer for Trader Joe's beginning in the 1970s helped introduce consumers to bargain-priced wines from around the globe, has died. He was 73. (Boston Globe, 7/24/08)
Sid Craig, at 76; cofounded and built Jenny Craig Inc.
SAN DIEGO - Sid Craig, who built the weight-loss company Jenny Craig Inc. with his wife and was a prominent thoroughbred horse owner, died Monday in San Diego following a long illness. He was 76. (Boston Globe, 7/24/08)
John H. Lynch, 84; WWII veteran worked for telephone company
From Omaha Beach to the Battle of the Bulge, John H. Lynch fought in some of the fiercest battles of World War II as part of an antiaircraft unit of General George Patton's Third Army. Yet, he would later amuse his children by recounting that the only injury he suffered was to his knee - while diving into a foxhole. ... (Boston Globe, 7/24/08)
Soldier's remains returning to Lawrence for funeral Mass
The remains of a Lawrence soldier who was missing in Iraq for 14 months will be returned to the city tomorrow for a wake and funeral service, military officials said yesterday. (Boston Globe, 7/24/08)
Charles Z. Wick, 90; spread Reagan's message overseas
LOS ANGELES - Charles Z. Wick, who as director of the US Information Agency under President Reagan expanded American broadcasts to Cuba and Russia but whose agency was accused of blacklisting liberals, has died. He was 90. (Boston Globe, 7/23/08)
Dinko Sakic, at 87; head of WWII Croatian camp
ZAGREB, Croatia - Dinko Sakic, the last known living commander of a World War II concentration camp, died in a Croatian hospital while serving a 20-year sentence for war crimes, officials said Monday. He was 87. (Boston Globe, 7/23/08)
Jacques Kaplan, 83; absurdist furrier owned art gallery
NEW YORK - It was a memorable meeting between high art and animal hides in 1963. Frank Stella had painted black and yellow stripes on fur garments. Richard Anuszkiewicz had devised a bold geometric arrangement of white dots on a calfskin coat. (Boston Globe, 7/23/08)
Patricia Zander, pianist, mentor who 'lived and breathed' music
Patricia Zander carried the limelight with her wherever she went; she didn't seek it, but it shone within her. (Boston Globe, 7/23/08)
Estelle Getty, 84, scene stealer of TV's 'Golden Girls'
LOS ANGELES - Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The Golden Girls," died yesterday at her Hollywood Boulevard home, said her son, Carl Gettleman of Santa Monica. She was 84. (Boston Globe, 7/23/08)
Dercy Goncalves, 101, actress
Brazilian actress and comedian Dercy Goncalves, known for her vulgar wit and scandalous behavior, has died. She was 101. (Boston Globe, 7/22/08)
Thomas Stallings, veteran of WWII
Thomas M. Stallings, a World War II veteran and a Pearl Harbor survivor, died July 15 at the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea . He was 92 and had suffered from pneumonia and Parkinson's disease. (Boston Globe, 7/22/08)
Joseph Fields, pianist, conductor, composer
Joseph E. Fields, a pianist, conductor, and composer who was a former music director and principal conductor of Dance Theater of Harlem, died July 4 in Scranton, Pa. He was 53 and had homes in Scranton and New York City. (Boston Globe, 7/22/08)
Jerome Holtzman, 82, baseball writer, historian
Jerome Holtzman - a longtime baseball writer who was inducted into the Hall of Fame, created the saves rule, and later became Major League Baseball's official historian - died Saturday in Evanston. He was 82. (Boston Globe, 7/22/08)
Yardley Chittick, 107, oldest patent lawyer in US
Once you have a century of living under your belt, Yardley Chittick found, the world begins to take notice. (Boston Globe, 7/22/08)
Richard Bergenheim, 60, former editor of Christian Science Monitor
Richard Bergenheim, former editor of The Christian Science Monitor and president of the The First Church of Christ, Scientist, died Sunday morning in Kansas City. He was 60. (Boston Globe, 7/22/08)
Walter Kerwin; helped create volunteer Army
WASHINGTON - Walter T. Kerwin Jr., a retired four-star general who was the Army's second-highest-ranking officer in the mid-1970s and an architect of the all-volunteer Army, died July 11 of respiratory failure at the Washington House nursing facility in Alexandria, Va. He was 91 and an Alexandria resident. (Boston Globe, 7/21/08)
Carrie Richardson, 52; columnist wrote of suburbia's joys and sorrows
Carrie Izard Richardson once wrote that her columns in the Globe allowed her to be "a surveyor of the west suburban landscape," mapping a terrain where issues that drive national conversations jockeyed for space with the commonplace. (Boston Globe, 7/21/08)
Anatoly I. Pristavkin, 76; writer led Russian pardon commission
NEW YORK - Anatoly I. Pristavkin remembered how he and other orphans were forever shuttled about "like a flock of little animals" during the hell that was World War II in Russia. His scars showed in the suffering children who traipsed through many of his 26 novels, and in the toughness of his opposition to the Soviet authorities. (Boston Globe, 7/21/08)