The Washington Post obituary for Goodwin highlights yet another example.
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"It's easier for a woman," Yeager said, "to ask a girl to take off her clothes," according to her Washington Post obituary.
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Yorkshire Post obituary In December 2006, she was appointed a CBE for her public services.Yorkshire Post obituary In January 2007, Wilson announced that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer, but would be continuing in her role as leader of the council. She died of the illness on 2 August 2010, at the age of 66.
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Washington Post Obituary, 19 February 2020. Portis has been described as "one of the most inventively comic writers of western fiction".Portis. - English.
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October 31, 1934. Baker died at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. He was buried in Painted Post."Obituary." The New York Times: p. 23.
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Gandy died of a heart attack on July 7, 1988, either in DeLand (as indicated by her New York Times obituary) or in nearby Orange City, Florida (as stated in her Post obituary).
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Elizabeth Hoisington's 1970 promotion made them the first brother and sister generals in the United States military.Washington Post, Obituary, Air Force Gen. Perry M. Hoisington II, May 3, 2006 She was survived by a younger brother, Robert (d. 2020), and a sister, Nancy (d. 2012).
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John Richardson Jr. (February 4, 1921Newsletter of the American Diplomatic and consular service, United States Department of State, 1969. At Google Books – December 26, 2014)Washington Post obituary John Richardson, Jr was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs from 1969 to 1977.
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Washington Post obituary He also wrote about China and Japan. He taught at the Yali School of Changsha in 1925 and was a Senior Bachelor of the Yale's China group. In 1946 he wrote a book on Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition.Plymouth University He never married or had children.
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16 Apr. 2014. John William Cameron used this juncture to enter into semi-retirement, and managerial responsibility was devolved to his brother, Watson Cameron (died 1920).Yorkshire Post, Obituary, 29 Dec 1896 Nixey, Coleclough & Baxter of the Brunswick Brewery in Hartlepool, was acquired in 1895, along with around 80 public houses.
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Abdul Kady Karim (died 12 or 13 November 2014)legacy.com Washington Post obituary was a Sierra Leonean politician, accountant and academic. He was a member of the United National People's Party (UNPP). He ran for President in Sierra Leone's August 2007 general election and finished in 7th place with 7,260 votes (.
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Jeannine "Mimi" Perrin (2 February 1926 – 16 November 2010)ouest-france death notice (French) retrieved 17 November 2010Washington Post, Obituary, 18 November 2010. Retrieved on 17 December 2010. was a French jazz pianist and singer, and translator. Perrin received private musical instruction, including piano as a child and pursued English studies at Sorbonne.
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Dibb married in 1835 Elizabeth Piper, daughter of John Piper. They had no children.Information from the plate on the bust of Thomas Townend Dibb. The Yorkshire Post obituary of June 1875 lists numerous acts of public benevolence, including involvement with the Leeds General Infirmary and a fund for the benefit of widows and orphans of the Crimean War.
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David Israel Shapiro (June 17, 1928 - October 1, 2009)Washington Post Obituary was an American 1st Amendment attorney and civil liberties activist, known best in the United States for his key roles defending people against accusations by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, his representation of the American Nazi Party in a free speech case, and his pioneering in class action lawsuits.
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Lambert was a Christadelphian, and a conscientious objector. From 1944 he worked in a horticultural nursery north of Birmingham in lieu of military service and supervised Italian prisoners of war in their work.Birmingham Post obituary Later, in his spare time, he was editor of one of his church's quarterly magazines.Newspaper press directory Volume 120 Ernest Benn Limited – 1971 Endeavour Magazine.
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He is survived by his eight children: John Ascani, Bill Ascani, Carole Jo McDaniel, Susan Ascani, Stephen Ascani, Clare Ascani, Betsy Henderson and Dave Ascani.Washington Post obituary A Requiem was held at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Alexandria. Ascani was interred with full military honors on June 3, 2010 at Arlington National Cemetery with his wife of 61 years, Catherine Ascani (1918–2003).Ascani Burial Information.
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In 1869 Mills bought the Watton estate and an outlying farm at Tottenhill in Norfolk. His son Joseph Trueman Mills added the South Pickenham estate, Norfolk. Clermont Hall The last owner of Clermont Hall was Sir Richard Prince-SmithRichard Prince-Smith died in June 2007 at his home in Rancho Mirage, California. Yorkshire Post: Obituary who acquired the estate in 1966 and sold it in 1997.
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Sending his wife and children to Adelaide, Baddeley himself remained in his diocese during World War II, paying particular attention to medical work among those injured in fighting with the Imperial Japanese Army. To hide from the Japanese, he moved hospital equipment into the bush, and continued throughout the fighting to minister to natives and to US and other Allied wounded at Guadalcanal.Yorkshire Post obituary,12.2.
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Feversham was born in Hampshire on 3 January 1945.Yorkshire Post, obituary, published 4 April 2009 His parents were Colonel Anthony John Duncombe-Anderson and Gioranna Georgina Valerie McNalty. He was born Charles Anthony Peter Duncombe-Anderson, but on 12 March 1954 changed his name to Charles Anthony Peter Duncombe by deed poll. He was educated at Eton College and then trained as a barrister, before going into journalism.
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George McDonic, Sylvia Law - first woman president and dedicated planner - dies, RTPI News, 21 May 2004. Retrieved 18 January 2013Daily Post, Obituary - Sylvia Law, 19 April 2004. Retrieved 19 January 2013 In 1959 she started work as a planning researcher with Kent County Council, and studied for her planning qualification at Regent Street Polytechnic in central London. Influenced by the work of planning pioneer Patrick Geddes, she developed strong socialist beliefs.
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Hafiz died in the Wellington suburb of Rongotai at the age of 61. Over 200 people attended his funeral and he was remembered in the Evening Post obituary as “an imam as imams should be, but rarely are.” The Post continued: After his death the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand replaced him with an entire board of scholars. His son-in-law, Mohammed Amir, has served as Imam of Wellington ever since.
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Lister was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1939 and as a priest in 1941.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP 1940 He was initially a Curate at St Nicholas Radford.Flickr After this he was Curate at St John the Baptist, Coventry Church web site and then Vicar of Brighouse. He was Archdeacon of Halifax from 1961 to 1972,Yorkshire Post Obituary when he became Provost of Wakefield – a post he held for a decade.
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At Justice he also worked on desegregation and civil rights cases in the Civil Rights Division where he was eventually head of the Elections Section prior to being recommended to Chief Justice Earl Warren for the position of reporter of decisions. Putzel said the ideal reporter must be a lawyer, a "word nut", and a "double revolving peripatetic nit-picker." Putzel died in Peterborough, New Hampshire on September 2, 2013, at the age of 99.Washington Post obituary, Sept.
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William M. Hines (September 11, 1916 – February 28, 2005) was an American journalist. According to his Washington Post obituary, he was considered "the godfather of NASA space reporting." He attended Guilford College but left for a job at the Chattanooga Times. He served as a first lieutenant in the United States Army during World War II. He worked briefly in The Pentagon's information office before joining the Washington Star as a reporter and later becoming Sunday editor.
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" Folliard told him that "if you're going to be a political writer, there's one thing you'd better remember. Never let the facts get in your way." He kept using his old Underwood typewriter after the Post newsroom had replaced them. According to his Post obituary, Folliard "refused to observe margins or to triple space his copy," turning in "some of the 'dirtiest' copy," typed "on an ancient typewriter, long in disrepair, that he insisted on using.
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George Edward Tennant (obituary), Palm Beach Post (Obituary for brother George; "He is survived by one sister, Miss Dorothy Tennant, former stage star who is now in the motion pictures.") Tennant married Robert M. Catts in December 1911 in a secret wedding.(6 July 1912). Dorothy Tennant was Married Last Winter, The Sun (New York) Catts had previously been married and was in disputes with his wife, so the marriage grabbed some press attention when it was first reported on in July 1912.
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Garbo was an international star during the late silent era and the "Golden Age" of Hollywood who became a screen icon. For most of her career, she was the highest-paid actor or actress at MGM, making her for many years its "premier prestige star". The April 1990 Washington Post obituary said that "at the peak of her popularity, she was a virtual cult figure". Garbo possessed a subtlety and naturalism in her acting that set her apart from other actors and actresses of the period.
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In 1974 Sudhalter and Philip R. Evans (né Philip Roland Evans; 1935–1999) co-wrote Bix: Man and Legend, the standard biography of jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and the first jazz biography ever to be nominated for a National Book Award. Music critic Terry Teachout has called the book "a 'landmark of jazz scholarship' and the 'first jazz biography written to the standards' of a serious study of a classical composer or other major historical figure."Washington Post obituary (September 20, 2008). Accessed September 23, 2008.
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McKinnon died 2001 December 29th in La Jolla, California.Washington Post Obituary Washington Post. 06/01/02. Retrieved: 17/05/18 His son Michael D. is the majority stockholder in McKinnon Broadcasting, owner of San Diego Home & Garden Lifestyles Magazine, and a former Texas state legislator (1972–1976).San Diego Home and Garden Lifestyles Website His son C. Dan was the former owner of KSON radio, is a minority stockholder in McKinnon Broadcasting, ran for congress as a Republican in 1980, and was national campaign chairman of the Duncan Hunter for President campaign in 2008.
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Defense Who's Who, Washington Post (January 19, 1999). According to his Washington Post obituary, "within the White House, Mr. Ruff was not seen as an obvious team player. He refrained from freely dispensing information to those who did not absolutely need to know the president's legal strategy." Ruff particularly clashed with Craig, who had been brought on by the White House specifically as the "quarterback" for the impeachment defense strategy; "each man behaved as if he were the one in charge" and the two had different professional styles.
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Tabor was a principal investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) until 2020 and was the Chief of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology from 1962 to 1996. At the time of his death he held the record as the longest-serving employee in the history of the National Institutes of Health (77 years).Washington Post obituary Tabor was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry from 1971 to 2010. Under his direction the journal expanded from 1,000 to 4,500 published articles per annum.
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Edmund Campbell was admitted to Washington and Lee when he was 15 years old and would graduate as valedictorian of his class in 1918. He served six weeks in the U.S. Army, but was discharged a World War I ended.Washington Post obituary Campbell then attended Harvard University and received a master's degree in economics. He returned to Virginia to study law, and graduated first in his class from Washington and Lee Law School in 1922, then moved to Washington, D.C. Campbell married Estelle Butterworth in 1926, and moved across the Potomac River to Arlington.
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A breast cancer survivor, she had been battling diabetes when she died of complications from the condition, aged 71.Adam Bernstein, "Mesmerizing Jazz Singer and Pianist" (obituary), Washington Post, October 22, 2005. She is interred at Ft. Lincoln Cemetery in Washington, D.C.Washington Post obituary Since her death, concert recordings of Horn have been released on CD and DVD by Resonance Records and Image Entertainment. On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Shirley Horn among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
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Weiss died on November 25, 2003The New York Times, December 1, 2003; under what the UK newspaper The Independent has characterized as "mysterious circumstances".The Independent, September 17, 2009 His body was found on the walk beneath his upstairs apartment in the Watergate building in Washington, DC. The local medical examiner ruled his death a suicide, according to The Washington Post.The Independent, September 17, 2009; The Washington Post, December 7, 2003 The Post obituary, which came twelve days after the fact, was the first local report that Weiss had died. It gave no reason for the suicide determination.
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Lenthall retired in 1871. He remained active in retirement, serving on a board which advised the U.S. Navy on new ship design and construction at a time when the Navy was making a transition from wooden and iron ships to the construction of the modern steel navy which would begin to appear in the 1880s. Lenthall died suddenly in Washington, D.C., on 11 April 1882.findagrave.com quotes a Washington Post obituary of 12 April 1882, placing Lenthalls date of death on 11 April 1882, and displays a photograph of his gravesite with a headstone etched with a date of death of 11 April 1882.
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Chickamin Glacier, Dome Peak, 1965 Austin S. Post (16 March 1922 – 12 November 2012"Austin S. Post Obituary." The New York Times, 29 November 2012.) was a photographer, glaciologist, and mountaineer known for his aerial photography of the mountains and glaciers of North America, particularly the North Cascades of Washington and Glacier Bay, Alaska. Post worked for many years as a research scientist for the United States Geological Survey and was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 2004, despite not having graduated from high school. Many of his photographs are used in the Cascade Alpine Guide books by Fred Beckey.
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Edward Francis Simms (March 5, 1871 - December 6, 1938) was an American lawyer, oil industrialist, and owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses about whom a Houston Post obituary said his career was "a saga of American accomplishment." A graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, at the turn of the 20th Century Simms went to Texas where he made a fortune in oil exploration in the Sour Lake area. In 1915 he returned to Kentucky where he bought out his brother William's share in Xalapa Farm near Paris, Kentucky, a property they had inherited from their father. Edward Simms would become a successful breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.
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Alongside his artistic career, Lewton became known for designing museum exhibitions in ways that suited the style of the artists featured. During his tenure at the National Museum of American Art, which later became the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), he created experiences for visitors to discover the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Thomas Cole, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frederic Remington, among others. “Val often incorporated a special element in his designs to evoke the era being displayed — sometimes as simple as a drapery to evoke a Gilded Age parlor,” stated SAAM director Elizabeth Broun in Lewton’s Washington Post obituary. He later worked on a freelance basis for the Phillips Collection and other institutions.
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He was born in Royston, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 18 April 1924, and grew up in Carlton, Barnsley, also in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Mason first went down the mines at the age of fourteen and he became a branch official of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in his early twenties. Aged 26, he studied at the London School of Economics as a mature student on a Trades Union Congress (TUC) scholarship.Yorkshire Post Obituary – 'Roy Mason a Man Forever Linked with Barnsley' Retrieved 20 April 2015 He remained in the coal industry until he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Barnsley constituency at a by-election in 1953.
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Brenner was a Roman Catholic who graduated from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, a Jesuit institution. When he heard from Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School alumnae that Sister Marie Louise had a talent for sports predictions, he invited her to call into his "Mystery Prognosticator Contest" in 1989. After she beat Brenner's other celebrity sports predictors including (according to her Washington Post obituary) "newscasters Dan Rather, Maureen Bunyan and Connie Chung; boxer Sugar Ray Leonard; actors William Shatner and Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens); members of the Temptations; and football stars Sonny Jurgensen and Mark Rypien -- People magazine and other publications came courting." Brenner made her a regular, thanks to the permission of Mother Mary DeSales, who happened to be an avid fan of football, and the story was picked up internationally.
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Andrew Bart Steinberg (October 12, 1958 – May 20, 2012Washington Post obituary) was a leading aviation regulatory lawyer, who held several key posts in the public and private sectors in the United States.Jones Day bio He served until 2008 as the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs within the United States Department of Transportation, after being confirmed to the position by the U.S. Senate on September 29, 2006, following appointment by President George W. Bush.DoT/bios/steinberg Prior to that post, he had been appointed by the President in May 2003, as the Chief Counsel of the Federal Aviation Administration, where he served as the top legal advisor to FAA Administrator Marion C. Blakey. Steinberg was a partner in the Washington D.C. office of the international law firm of Jones Day, where he led the firm's aviation regulatory practice, a post once held by aviation pioneer L. Welch Pogue.
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The real estate company, Thomas Emery's Sons, built the first substantial apartment houses in Cincinnati as well as numerous other buildings downtown (Mercantile Library Building, The Cincinnatian Hotel and others) and in the immediately adjacent hills.The Cincinnati Post obituary editorial, quoted in University of Cincinnati): John Josiah Emery After World War II, Thomas Emery's Sons built the Terrace Plaza Hotel, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, placing the hotel lobby on the eighth floor, reached by elevators that by-passed the commercial floors. For the hotel he commissioned three works of art that passed to the Cincinnati Art Museum when he sold the Terrace Plaza: a mural by Joan Miró and a cartoon mural by Saul Steinberg and a giant mobile by Alexander Calder. He was a founder of the Cincinnati Country Day School, a leading trustee and important benefactor of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
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1939 legislative bio During the 1930s, Miller also strongly spoke out against Adolf Hitler and urged war preparedness.Washington Post obituary He realized that Virginia's U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd's close financial scrutiny was "nickel and diming" national war preparedness, because of the Senator's hatred of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, although a fellow Democrat.Ronald Heinemann, Byrd, p. 220 While in the Virginia General Assembly (a part-time position) beginning in 1938, Miller allied with Virginia Governor James H. Price, who supported the New Deal despite the opposition of U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd and his Byrd Organization, which prided itself on low tax rates and cared little about funding human welfare programs. During the Great Depression, Virginia was the 8th lowest in the country in terms of residents on general relief, and ranked 32nd nationally in the amount of state funds obligated for relief.
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Victor Gold was born in East St. Louis, Illinois to Jewish immigrants,Washington Post Obituary, June 7, 2017 and reared in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he attended public schools and graduated in 1945 from the former Alcee Fortier High School in Uptown New Orleans, since superseded by Lusher Charter School. At Fortier, Gold was a classmate of David C. Treen, the Louisiana Republican lawyer who became the first member of his party in a century to gain election to the United States House of Representatives, in his case Louisiana's 3rd congressional district in 1972, and as governor of Louisiana in 1979. Gold encouraged Republicans in both Alabama and Louisiana as they sought with slow success to overcome the long-term dominance of the Democrats in their states. He graduated from Tulane University and then worked as a reporter- correspondent for The Birmingham News in Birmingham, Alabama.
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From 1935 to 1939, he served first in the Netherlands and then in Sweden. From 1939 to 1941, he was in Guatemala.Washington Post, Obituary, 25 February 1981 During much of World War II, Cabot worked in the State Department as assistant chief of the division of American Republics and then as chief of the division of Caribbean and Central American affairs. Cabot (centre) in Shanghai in 1948 with Mayor K.C. Wu to his left He was posted to Argentina after the war and, then, in 1947, he was appointed counsellor of the US Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He was then appointed US Consul General in Shanghai between 1948 and 1949 and was in post when the Communist troops took over the city in May, 1949. Cabot served a U.S. Ambassador to Sweden from 1954 to 1957, Colombia from 1957 to 1959, Brazil from 1959 to 1961, and Poland from 1962 to 1965, during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administration.
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James Maurice Gavin (March 22, 1907 – February 23, 1990), sometimes called "Jumpin' Jim" and "the jumping general", was a senior United States Army officer, with the rank of lieutenant general, who was the third Commanding General (CG) of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. During the war, he was often referred to as "The Jumping General" because of his practice of taking part in combat jumps with the paratroopers under his command; he was the only American general officer to make four combat jumps in the war. Gavin was the youngest major general to command an American division in World War II, being only 37Washington Post Obituary, "LT. GEN. JAMES M. GAVIN, WORLD WAR II HERO, DIES AT 82" by Richard Pearson, 25 February 1990 upon promotion, and the youngest lieutenant general after the war, in March 1955. He was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses and several other decorations for his service in the war.
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"Washington Post obituary In addition to being the only woman in the Virginia General Assembly at the time, Stone was one of only two legislators with a background in education, and one of only nine legislators born outside the "Solid South".Robbins L. Gates, The Making of Massive Resistance: Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation 1954-1956 (University of North Carolina Press, 1964) pp. 146-147 Arlington, which she represented, wanted to integrate its public schools as a result of an NAACP lawsuit against it, but Senator Harry F. Byrd and others (particularly from Southside Virginia) had taken away Arlington's elected school board and proposed to close any school or district that integrated, rather than allow that "local option." Stone specifically warned against a series of bills targeting the NAACP, telling fellow legislators "you are stooping in panic as you desert the Bill of Rights, which was born in the minds and hearts of the greatest Virginians.
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