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Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
The Office of Correspondence formed over the fifty-year White House career of staffer Ira R.T. Smith. He began handling the mail as a part of his duties as a clerk to President William McKinley in 1897. At the time, Smith was one of only twelve White House staffers. President McKinley received about 100 letters per day.
Legacy.com attaches a publicly accessible guestbook to most of the obituaries it hosts, [7] which enables anyone with an Internet connection to pay tribute to someone whose obituary appears in one of Legacy.com's affiliate newspapers or is self-published on Legacy.com. The company reviews more than 1,000,000 guestbook entries each month to make ...
Part of the Office of Administration is the Facilities Management Division. The core functions include the Facility Request Program, Space Management, Project Oversight, Conference and Meeting Support, Preservation Stewardship, and Recycling Program Management.
William Dee Smith (February 9, 1933 – September 9, 2020) was a United States Navy four star admiral who served as United States Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP) between 1991 & 1993. Smith retired in 1993 and died in 2020.
The following year, Smith was approached by college students Ray Hildebrand and Jill Jackson, and recorded the duo immediately on hearing their song. As "Hey Paula", credited to Paul and Paula, it became an international hit. [6] Smith's third major hit as a credited producer was "Last Kiss", recorded by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers in
After working a year for newspapers, Smith moved to New York City in 1937 and established his first studio there. He was an instructor at the Grand Central School of Art (1942–43) before joining the Office of Strategic Services in China in 1944 and 1945. He lectured abroad at the Academy of Fine Arts, Athens (1954); the University of Santo ...
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 ...