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Alden Rogers Whitman (October 27, 1913 – September 4, 1990) was an American journalist who served as chief obituary writer for The New York Times from 1964 to 1976. In that role, he pioneered a more vivid, biographical approach to obituaries, some based on interviews with his subjects in advance of their deaths.
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 ...
His son William Frederick Havemeyer, retired from the sugar refining business in 1842 and entered politics, eventually serving three terms as Mayor of New York. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1855, the family relocated their refineries to Brooklyn , where they remained as the business grew to acquire a commanding share of the United States sugar refining ...
In an Instagram post on Sunday, Dec. 29, Meyers shared two throwback photos posing with Shyer. She kept her caption simple, only writing, “Charles Shyer 1941 -2024.” During the course of their ...
Meyer graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College in 1952 and the Army War College in 1956. [1] After 30 years of military service, he retired on July 31, 1967, as a brigadier general . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Meyer died on August 11, 2001, in Hampton, New Hampshire , [ 6 ] and was buried at the West Point Cemetery at the United States Military Academy ...
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Carmine Lombardozzi (February 8, 1913 – May 9, 1992) was a high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family in New York.He was known as "Alberto", "The Doctor", the "King of Wall Street" and "The Italian Meyer Lansky". [1]
The woman accused of stabbing a postal worker to death over a spot in line at a Harlem deli has a long history of knife violence — and once threatened “to cut” one of her previous victims.