Obituaries for 2014

[Machiavelli]

I have seen this done successfully elsewhere.

It is a collective thread for obituaries when the poster chooses to not post a specific thread on the passing of a particularly person. A new thread is started at the beginning of each year.

It is strictly up to the individual posters' preference as to whether or not they wish to post passings to this collective thread, or to give the passed person a thread of his/her own.

This thread also gives an opportunity to post the passings of people who achieved only niche fame rather than wide fame.

[Machiavelli]

Jerry Vale, Who Crooned Smoothly of Love, Is Dead at 83

Jerry Vale, a pop crooner known for his velvety voice and the classic love songs he recorded in the 1950s and early ’60s, died on Sunday at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 83.

His family confirmed his death.

Mr. Vale rose to stardom performing in supper clubs as a teenager, hitting the charts for the first time in 1953 with “You Can Never Give Me Back My Heart.” He was a fixture at Columbia Records, where he recorded more than 50 albums and had hits with songs like “Two Purple Shadows” and “Al Di La.” His biggest hit, “You Don’t Know Me,” peaked at No. 14 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1956.

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[Machiavelli]

'Godfather' Cinematographer Gordon Willis Dies at 82

Gordon Willis, the acclaimed cinematographer behind the Godfather trilogy and such Woody Allen films as Annie Hall, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose and Zelig, has died. He was 82.

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[Machiavelli]

Australian F1 legend Sir Jack Brabham dies, aged 88

Formula One great Sir Jack Brabham, one of the sport's most accomplished drivers and team owners, died Monday at his home in Australia after a long illness, his family said.

"It's a very sad day for all of us. My father passed away peacefully at home at the age of 88 this morning," son David Brabham said in a statement.

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[Machiavelli]

Maya Angelou, author and poet, dead at 86

American author and poet Maya Angelou, who is best known for her groundbreaking autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," has died at age 86 in North Carolina, her publisher confirmed on Wednesday.

The prolific African-American writer penned more than 30 books, won numerous awards, and was honored last year by the National Book Awards for her service to the literary community.

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[Machiavelli]

Radu Florescu, Scholar Who Linked Dracula and Vlad the Impaler, Dies at 88

Have you ever seen Count Dracula and Vlad the Impaler in the same place at the same time?

Of course not, and that, according to Radu Florescu, is precisely the point: The two men, he argued, were one and the same.

Professor Florescu, who died on May 18 at 88, was the scion of a distinguished Romanian family and a noted scholar of Balkan affairs. But he was known to a much wider public as the author of books that sought to identify Vlad, the evildoing 15th-century monarch, as the historical inspiration for Bram Stoker’s antihero.

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[Machiavelli]

Washington star and NBA Hall of Famer, Bob Houbregs, dies at 82

Bob Houbregs, the Hall of Fame basketball player who starred at Washington and played in the NBA, has died. He was 82.

Houbregs died Wednesday morning, the school confirmed. Details of his death were not immediately available.

The 6-foot-7 Canadian was a star in college thanks to his hook shot. He led Washington to its only Final Four appearance in 1953, capping his stellar college career.

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[jmyrlefuller]

Ann B. Davis, Alice on 'Brady Bunch,' dies

Ann B. Davis, known for her role as housekeeper Alice Nelson on "The Brady Bunch," died Sunday, close friend Bishop William Frey said. She was 88.

According to Frey, Davis fell and hit her head Saturday morning in her bathroom. She suffered a subdural hematoma and never regained consciousness.

Among Davis's most notable roles were Alice, the maid on The Brady Bunch and Charmaine Schultz on The Bob Cummings Show (now better known as Love That Bob! and among those old TV shows that have now ended up in the public domain). For her role on Bob, she won two Emmy Awards.

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[Machiavelli]

Former Cy Young Award winner Bob Welch dies at 57

Bob Welch, a former Cy Young Award winner and the last Major League pitcher to win at least 25 games in a season, has passed away at the age of 57, the Oakland Athletics announced Tuesday.

Welch, a two-time All-Star who posted a 27-6 record as the Cy Young Award winner on the Athletics' 1990 American League championship team, passed away in Seal Beach, Monday night. Cause of death was undetermined.

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[Machiavelli]

Screen, stage legend Ruby Dee dead at 91

Ruby Dee, the award-winning actress whose seven-decade career included triumphs on stage and screen, has died. She was 91.

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Her husband was the late Ossie Davis.

[Chieftain]

Is Generalissimo Francisco Franco still dead...??

 

[Machiavelli]

Eric Hill, creator of Spot the Dog, dies at 86

Eric Hill, whose effort to entertain his young son with a simple drawing of a mischievous dog named Spot blossomed into a popular series of children's books that have sold more than 60 million copies, has died at his home in central California. He was 86.

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[DCPatriot]

Thanks for putting these all into one thread, Machiavelli!   

[Machiavelli]

Actress Carla Laemmle, a link to Hollywood's past, dies at 104

Carla Laemmle, a dancer and actress whose uncle, Carl Laemmle, founded Universal Studios, where she grew up, died Thursday night at her home in Los Angeles. One of the last links to Hollywood’s silent film era, Laemmle was 104.

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[Machiavelli]

Thanks for putting these all into one thread, Machiavelli!   

My pleasure, DCP.  ^-^

[Machiavelli]

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos - obituary

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, who has died aged 80, was a conductor who delivered memorable interpretations of the works of his Spanish compatriots while championing the Germanic canon on the Iberian Peninsula.

His work took him to orchestras around the world, but he was best known for his associations with the Philharmonia in London and the Philadelphia Orchestra in the United States.

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[ABX]

Martha Hyer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/martha-hyer-oscar-nominated-actress-for-some-came-running-dies-at-89/2014/06/12/0b1c8068-f0c9-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html

Martha Hyer, a Hollywood actress in the 1950s and 1960s who was likened to Grace Kelly for her cool, blond elegance and earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting role in “Some Came Running” (1958), opposite Frank Sinatra, died May 31 in Santa Fe, N.M. She was 89.

[DCPatriot]

Chuck Noll, Coach of Steelers’ 1970s Dynasty, Dies at 82
Richard Goldstein


Chuck Noll, right, with Terry Bradshaw in 1973

Chuck Noll, who built the “Steel Curtain” Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s into one of the most dominant teams in pro football history, becoming the only N.F.L. coach to win four Super Bowl championships, died Friday night at his home in Sewickley, Pa., outside Pittsburgh. He was 82.

His death was confirmed by his son, Chris, who said he had Alzheimer’s disease as well as heart and back problems.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/sports/football/chuck-noll-coach-of-steelers-dynasty-in-1970s-dies-at-82.html?_r=0

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[Machiavelli]

Casey Kasem, famed radio DJ and voice actor, has died at 82

Casey Kasem, whose distinctive voice defined the interstitial sound of Top 40 radio for decades, has died. He was 82. The cause of death was not immediately released, though he had been ill for some time.

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[Machiavelli]

Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn dies

Tony Gwynn, who banged out 3,141 hits during a Hall of Fame career spanning 20 seasons with the San Diego Padres, has died, it was announced Monday.

The lefty-swinging Gwynn had a career .338 batting average, won eight National League batting titles, and played in the franchise's only two World Series.

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[Lando Lincoln]

Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn dies
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He struck out only 434 times in 9,288 At-Bats.  Astounding stat.

[Machiavelli]

He struck out only 434 times in 9,288 At-Bats.  Astounding stat.

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[Machiavelli]

In Memoriam – Daniel Keyes 1927-2014

Daniel Keyes (b.1927) died on June 15.  Keyes is best known for his short story "Flowers for Algernon," which won the Hugo Award, and its expansion, the Nebula Award-winning novel of the same title.  The book was turned into the film Charly, which won an Oscar for star Cliff Robertson, and the less successful musical Charlie and Algernon.

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Daniel Keyes (1927-2014)

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[Machiavelli]

Eli Wallach dies at 98; actor best known for two classic westerns

Eli Wallach, a veteran stage, screen and television actor who was closely identified with Tennessee Williams' plays on the New York stage but gained fame in Hollywood for a string of films in which he specialized in playing bandits, thieves, mafia dons and other criminals, has died. He was 98...

... he was probably most famous for his roles in two westerns: "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), the classic John Sturges western in which he played not one of the seven gunfighters holding off a gang of thieves but Calvera, the head of a Mexican gang; and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," Sergio Leone's 1966 western in which Clint Eastwood was "the good," Lee Van Cleef was "the bad" and Wallach was "the ugly" Tuco...

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[DCPatriot]

Eli Wallach....one of the very best supporting actors.

Like Oldman and a few others, he was the consummate scene stealer.



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[Machiavelli]

Ex-U.S. Sen. Howard Baker Jr. dies

Howard H. Baker Jr., a key senator during the Watergate investigation and a former U.S. ambassador to Japan, has died. He was 88.

Baker, who served in Tokyo from 2001 until early 2005, died Thursday at his home, according to an email distributed at the law firm where Baker was senior counsel. He died as a result of complications from a stroke suffered Saturday, the email said.

The scion of a political family, Baker served 18 years in the Senate, winning widespread respect from Republicans and Democrats alike and rising to the post of majority leader.

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[ABX]

Meshach Taylor from 'Designing Women' dies at 67

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/06/29/meshach-taylor-from-designing-women-dies-at-67/

[Machiavelli]

Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014)

Author, editor, and pulp magazine scholar Frank M. Robinson, 87, died June 30, 2014. Robinson lived in San Francisco and had suffered from health problems in recent years...

His first novel, The Power (1956, filmed in 1967), was an extremely successful SF thriller -- one of the first of that genre. In the ’70s and ’80s, he co-wrote a number of technothrillers (most with SFnal elements) with Thomas N. Scortia: The Glass Inferno (1974, filmed as The Towering Inferno) ...

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The Power is one of my favorite books.

Robinson was also a speechwriter for Harvey Milk.

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[Machiavelli]

More on Frank M. Robinson:

In Memoriam – Frank M. Robinson

RIP author and Harvey Milk speechwriter—and former Chicagoan—Frank M. Robinson

[Machiavelli]

Paul Mazursky dies at 84; director chronicled trends of '60s and '70s

Paul Mazursky, the Oscar-nominated writer-director who excelled at mining the urban middle class for laughs as well as tears in such movies as "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," "Blume in Love," "An Unmarried Woman" and "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," has died. He was 84.

Mazursky died of pulmonary cardiac arrest Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to family spokeswoman Nancy Willen.

A gentle satirist of contemporary society, Mazursky at his best chronicled the social trends of the late 1960s and the '70s, including its touchy-feely self-improvement fads, shifting rules for love and sex, drug experimentation and other excesses.

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[DCPatriot]

'McHale's Navy' star Bob Hastings dies at 89




An actor best known from the 1960s sitcom "McHale's Navy," has died. Bob Hastings was 89.

Allison Knowles says her grandfather died Monday in his Burbank, California, home after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer.

Hastings won fans on "McHale's Navy" as Lt. Carpenter, a bumbling yes-man. Other memorable roles were on "All in the Family" and "General Hospital."


http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/07/02/mchale-navy-star-bob-hastings-dies-at-8-2139539308/

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/211356-conservative-activist-richard-mellon-scaife-dies-at-at-82

Conservative activist Richard Mellon Scaife dies at 82

July 04, 2014, 08:10 am
Conservative activist Richard Mellon Scaife dies at 82

By Rachel Huggins

Richard Mellon Scaife, the billionaire heir to the Mellon banking and oil fortune, has died at age 82, the Associated Press reported Friday.

Scaife died early Friday at his home, according to his home newspaper, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

His death comes less than two months after he announced in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a newspaper he owned, that he had an untreatable form of cancer.

"Some who dislike me may rejoice at the news," wrote Scaife, "Naturally, I can't share their enthusiasm.

[Machiavelli]

Conservative activist Richard Mellon Scaife dies at 82

Richard Mellon Scaife Dies; Support for Conservative Causes Made Him Media Target

[Machiavelli]

Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84

Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as a relief pitcher but gained greater fame and consequence in the game by writing about it, died on June 29 in Park Ridge, Ill. He was 84.

The cause was an infection he developed while recovering from a stroke, his son, Timothy, said.

In 1959, Brosnan, who played nine years in the major leagues, kept a diary of his experience as a pitcher, first with the St. Louis Cardinals and later, after a trade, with the Cincinnati Reds. Published the next year as "The Long Season," it was a new kind of sportswriting -- candid, shrewd and highly literate, more interested in presenting the day-to-day lives and the actual personalities of the men who played the game than in maintaining the fiction of ballplayers as all-American heroes and role models.

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Jim Brosnan is not to be confused with Jim Bouton. Bouton's book, Ball Four, came out a decade after Brosnan's first book, The Long Season.

Jim Brosnan, big-league pitcher and author of 'The Long Season,' dies at 84

Jim Brosnan dies at 84; relief pitcher wrote inside look at baseball

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Eileen Ford, Founder of Ford Models, Is Dead at 92

http://www.people.com/article/eileen-ford-dies

Eileen Ford, who co-founded Ford Models with her husband Jerry in 1946 – essentially inventing the modern modeling business, and exerting enormous influence on the world's views of human beauty – has died at 92.

She had been hospitalized last week after suffering a fall at her New York apartment.

In a statement to PEOPLE about her mother, Katie Ford said:

"Eileen loved Jerry and her family and her friends, as well as Le Cirque, football, ballet, bellini's, Benny Goodman, “21”, books on history, the New York Post and The New York Times, Seinfeld, The Stork Club, her flower garden, The Ritz in Paris, champagne and

[jmyrlefuller]

Dickie Jones, voice of Pinocchio in the 1940 Disney film and 1950s Western character actor, dies at 87

Actor Dick Jones appeared in more than 100 films and television shows in his long career, but he is best known by far for a role in which he was not seen on screen. At about 10, when he was known as Dickie, Jones was chosen by Walt Disney to be the voice of Pinocchio in the classic 1940 animated film. Jones, 87, died Monday night after a fall at home in Northridge, said his son, Rick Jones.

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[ABX]

Tommy Ramone

Sad news to report, as drummer Tommy Ramone, the last surviving founding member of the legendary punk band The Ramones, has passed away at the age of 62.

Following a tragic period from 2001 to 2004 where Joey, Dee Dee and Johnny Ramone all died within a few years of each other, Tommy had remained the only living founding member of The Ramones until yesterday (July 11). The drummer died after a battle with bile duct cancer.

Tommy, whose real name was Erdelyi Tamas, was born in Budapest, Hungary, but grew up in Queens, N.Y., where the Ramones famously formed. He played on the band’s first three studio albums — ‘The Ramones,’ ‘Leave Home’ and ‘Rocket To Russia’ — before leaving the band in 1978. He also appeared on the band’s 1979 live disc ‘It’s Alive.’


Read More: Founding Ramones Drummer Tommy Ramone Dies | http://loudwire.com/tommy-ramone-dies/?trackback=tsmclip

http://loudwire.com/tommy-ramone-dies/

[Machiavelli]

Lorin Maazel, Brilliant, Intense and Enigmatic Conductor, Dies at 84

Lorin Maazel, a former child prodigy who went on to hold the music directorships of the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera and several other ensembles and companies around the world, and who was known for his incisive and sometimes extreme interpretations, died on Sunday at his home in Castleton, Va. He was 84.

The cause was complications of pneumonia, said Jenny Lawhorn, a spokeswoman for Mr. Maazel. He had been rehearsing for the Castleton Festival, which takes place on his farm, in recent weeks.

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[Machiavelli]

Red Klotz, loser of thousands of games to the Harlem Globetrotters, dies at 93

Red Klotz, who owned, coached and played for a number of teams that toured with and lost to the Harlem Globetrotters -- most famously the Washington Generals -- died Saturday in his sleep in Margate, N.J., the Press of Atlantic City reported. He was 93.

Klotz was a prep basketball standout in Philadelphia, twice being named that city's high school player of the year before going on to play at Villanova. He was on the Baltimore Bullets' 1947-48 NBA championship team. At 5 feet 7, he is tied with six others as the third-shortest NBA player ever, and was the shortest player ever to be on an NBA championship team.

In 1952, Globetrotters owner Gabe Saperstein asked if Klotz would form a team to compete against the Globetrotters on a regular basis.

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I remember him well.

[Machiavelli]

Blues legend Johnny Winter dies at 70 in Zurich

Texas blues legend Johnny Winter, known for his lightning-fast blues guitar riffs, his striking long white hair and his collaborations with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and childhood hero Muddy Waters, has died. He was 70.

Winter was a leading light among the white blues guitar players, including Eric Clapton and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, who followed in the footsteps of the earlier Chicago blues masters. Winter idolized Waters -- and got a chance to produce some of the blues legend's more popular albums. Rolling Stone magazine named Winter one of the top 100 guitarists of all time.

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[Machiavelli]

Elaine Stritch, Tart-Tongued Broadway Actress and Singer, Is Dead at 89

Elaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's wryly acrid musings on aging, died on Thursday at her home in Birmingham, Mich. She was 89.

Her death was confirmed by a friend, Julie Keyes. Before Ms. Stritch moved to Birmingham last year, she lived for many years at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan.

Ms. Stritch's career began in the 1940s and spanned almost 70 years. She made her fair share of appearances in movies, including Woody Allen's "September" (1987) and "Small Time Crooks" (2000), and on television; well into her 80s, she had a recurring role on the NBC comedy "30 Rock" as the domineering mother of the television executive played by Alec Baldwin.

But the stage was her true professional home. Whether in musicals, nonmusical dramas or solo cabaret shows, she drew audiences to her with her whiskey voice, her seen-it-all manner and the blunt charisma of a star.

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[DCPatriot]

http://www.tmz.com/2014/07/19/james-garner-dead-dies-maverick-rockford-files/

Legendary actor James Garner -- star of "The Rockford Files" and "The Notebook" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell us an ambulance was dispatched to the actor's home in Los Angeles around 8PM Saturday evening ... and he was dead when they arrived on scene.

We do not know his cause of death at this time.

[DCPatriot]

Former Cowboys running back Robert Newhouse dead at 64

By Clarence E. Hill Jr.



Former Dallas Cowboys fullback Robert Newhouse, who will be remembered most for throwing a touchdown pass to Golden Richards while running to his left in Super Bowl XII on one of Tom Landry’s famous trick plays, died Tuesday night. He was 64.

Newhouse battled health issues since suffering a stroke in 2010.

He spent much of the past year at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., hoping to get a heart transplant.

Newhouse never got strong enough for the transplant before succumbing to heart disease at the Mayo Clinic, his son Rodd Newhouse confirmed Tuesday night.

His final days were a stark contrast to how he lived and how he played football during a 12-year career with the Cowboys that included three Super Bowl appearances and a Super Bowl title in 1977.

Generously listed at 5-foot-10, 209 pounds, Newhouse ran with power, typified by his always churning massive thighs.

He had two nicknames during his career with the Cowboys, “House” and “human bowling ball” for his low-running style through defenses with those powerful thighs.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/07/22/5988448/former-cowboys-running-back-robert.html?rh=1

[Machiavelli]

Dick Smith, Oscar-Winning Makeup Artist, Dies at 92

Dick Smith, who made flesh peel from famous actors' faces, who made the young old and the beautiful hideous and who transformed a girl into a particularly possessed tween -- all while working as one of film and television's most original and accomplished makeup artists, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 92...

Those growling jowls of Marlon Brando in "The Godfather" movies? Mr. Smith applied them.

The brooding F. Murray Abraham in "Amadeus"? Mr. Smith helped turn Mr. Abraham's Antonio Salieri, the composer and rival of the upstart young Mozart, into a hoary relic as an embittered, and somewhat mad, old man.

David Bowie aging before your eyes in "The Hunger"? Mr. Smith's were the hands of time.

And little Linda Blair, who played the 12-year-old possessed by evil in "The Exorcist"? Mr. Smith made her head spin and spew green vomit and filled her mouth with decaying teeth. He made her pupils all but erupt from her eyeballs. Years later, he still had the fiberglass version of her head, the one that swiveled 360 degrees...

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Can we name some we would like to see join the goners?

[EC]

Can we name some we would like to see join the goners?

We ain't on enough watch lists already?

 

[jmyrlefuller]

Margot Adler, An NPR Journalist For Three Decades and Author, Dies

Margot joined the NPR staff as a general assignment reporter in 1979. She went on to cover everything from the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic to confrontations involving the Ku Klux Klan in Greensboro, N.C., to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"Her reporting was singular and her voice distinct," Margaret Low Smith, NPR's vice president for news, said in an announcement to staff. "There was almost no story that Margot couldn't tell."

Adler authored Drawing Down the Moon, a 1979 book about Neopaganism which was revised in 2006.  The book is considered a watershed in American Neopagan circles, as it provided the first comprehensive look at modern nature-based religions in the US. For many years it was the only introductory work about the American Neopagan communities.

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[Machiavelli]

James Brady, White House press secretary under Reagan, dies

James Brady, who served as White House press secretary under President Ronald Reagan and was badly wounded in the assassination attempt against Reagan in 1981, has died. He was 73.

Brady, later in life, became an active and outspoken advocate for gun control, and lobbied for stricter handgun and assault-weapon laws.

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[Machiavelli]

Peter Sculthorpe: Prolific Australian composer dies aged 85

Internationally renowned Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe, whose work was shaped by his love of the Australian landscape, has died aged 85.

The Launceston-born composer passed away at Wolper Jewish Hospital in Sydney after a long illness.

Sculthorpe's best-known achievement was his capacity to bring to Australians a sense of their land and history in the music of one of their own.

His many remarkable compositions were strongly influenced by Asian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music, and centred around his deep love for Australia and its landscape.

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[Machiavelli]

Solomon Islander who helped JFK save PT-109 crew dies

On a moonless night in August 1943, on a pitch-black strait in the Solomon Islands, two vessels collided.

A fireball bloomed, and the Navy gave up John F. Kennedy’s PT-109 crew for dead. But Lieutenant Kennedy fought, swimming for hours with his 10 remaining crewmembers, pulling one along by holding his life jacket strap in his teeth.

Kennedy’s heroics may have been for naught without Eroni Kumana and Biuku Gasa, two Solomon Islanders. They found Kennedy and his crew six days after the wreck, subsisting on coconuts on a small island.

The two took a message from Kennedy, which he etched into a green coconut, and paddled at great risk 35 miles through Japanese territory to deliver it to the nearest Allied base. A rescue was launched. The crew, and the future president, were saved.

Gasa died in 2005; Kumana died last week.

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