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May Beegle died in 1943, aged 61 years (according to her death certificate; the New York Times and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obituaries gave her age as 56). [15] [17] Her brother Thomas P. Beegle continued her concert series until his death in 1946, [18] [19] and then his son Bill Beegle ran the May Beegle Concerts series, through 1954. [20]
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.Descended from the Pittsburgh Gazette, established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the paper formed under its present title in 1927 from the consolidation of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and The Pittsburgh ...
A death penalty case in the state would be rare; only three people have been executed in Pennsylvania since 1978, according to the Post-Gazette. There are no women on death row in the state. There ...
After her father's death in 1957, Vojtko attended the University of Pittsburgh, earning a bachelor's degree in 1967 and a master's in 1970. In the mid-1970s, she began working on a doctoral degree from The Catholic University of America. She never completed her dissertation, which focused on the history of Homestead.
The exact circumstances of Rosenblum's death remain disputed, with his father Maurice alleging foul play on the part of the Baldwin Borough Police Department (BBPD). [1] The case elicited local and national media attention, including an extensive investigation by Pittsburgh Magazine in 1988 which resulted in a libel suit by two Baldwin police ...
Savran on Sportsbeat was considered a lifeline to Pittsburgh natives who had scattered throughout the country : a way to touch base and get the news and opinions regarding Pittsburgh sports. The show had a regular run of guests, including Mr. Monday Night, former Steelers tackle Tunch Ilkin, Steelers defensive back Ike Taylor, Pittsburgh ...
Rachel Larimer Mellon Walton (January 8, 1899 – March 2, 2006) was an American philanthropist, a member of one of the most prominent families in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the longest serving member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's board of directors.
Ray Sprigle (August 14, 1886 – December 22, 1957 [1]) was a journalist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for his reporting that Alabama Senator Hugo Black, newly appointed to the US Supreme Court, had been a member of the 20th-century Ku Klux Klan.