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Michael Chabon (A&S 1984) – Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; Murray Chass (A&S 1960) – award-winning baseball journalist for The New York Times; Michael Clinton - writer and photographer; Bill Cullen – host of many television game ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
[15] [16] Amato began expanding his influence over the gambling rackets in and around Allegheny County, and formed a strong alliance with the Genovese crime family in New York City, who represented Pittsburgh at meetings of the Commission. [9] Amato ruled until 1956, when he fell ill from a kidney ailment and stepped down to become underboss ...
Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916, in the neighborhood of La Jolla in San Diego, California, [2] [3] to Bernice Mae "Bunny" (née Ayres; 1894–1992), and Gregory Pearl Peck (1886–1962), a Rochester, New York–born chemist and pharmacist.
Penn alumni are the current or past presidents of over one hundred universities and colleges including Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Cornell University, University of California system, University of Texas system, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Tulane University, Bowdoin College, and Williams College; and eight medical schools ...
Marion Chesney, 83, Scottish novelist (Death of a Gossip, Death of an Outsider, Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance). [715] Marie Devereux, 79, English actress. [716] Tommy Dingwall, 89, Scottish politician. [717] Dragomir Draganov, 71, Bulgarian historian and politician, MP (1997–2001). [718]
The Bufalino crime family, [5] also known as the Pittston crime family, [6] the Pittston–Scranton crime family, [7] the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre crime family, [6] the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family, [8] the Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia, [9] [10] or the Scranton Mafia, [11] was an Italian-American Mafia crime family active in Northeastern Pennsylvania, primarily in the cities of ...
Stephen Martin Peck was born to a Jewish family on February 2, 1935, in New York City, U.S. [1] [2] [3] He was the third child and only son of Helen (née Epstein) and Barney Peck, a partner in a Wall Street brokerage firm and member of the New York Stock Exchange. Barney Peck, who began his career as a runner for Herrick, Berg and Co., was ...