Mr. Rosenbaum’s career in education was cut short after he helped in an attempt to indict a police officer in 1951 and attracted Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s attention.
Father McNeill was a champion of gay rights long before the Catholic church opened the issue to debate, and he was expelled from his order as a result.
Remembering Oliver Sacks, B.B. King, Leonard Nimoy, Happy Rockefeller, Julian Bond, Lesley Gore, E.L. Doctorow, Maya Plisetskaya and many others who died this year.
Mr. Levins joined Eliot Feld’s American Ballet Company as a teenager, was a principal at American Ballet Theater and had a memorable role in ‘The Turning Point.’
Mr. Patton’s keen eye for objects and their hidden significance made him a sought-after contributor to magazines including Art in America, Esquire, Smithsonian and Wired.
Yogi Berra had not been a presence around the Yankees for several years, but most around the team could not help smiling when they recounted their relationship with the Hall of Fame catcher.
A mainstay player on 10 Yankee championship teams who as a manager led the Yankees and Mets to the World Series, Berra may have been better known for his bumbling yet wise way with words.
Dr. Root was chief of pediatric orthopedics for 27 years at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, and he created a program to screen New York City children for disorders of the bones and joints.
As the director of the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institute of Health, Dr. Paul focused the government’s research programs to develop innovative therapies.
Bound up in the Thompson bagel machine is the story of Jewish assimilation, gastronomic homogenization, the decline of trade unionism and the rise of franchise retailing.
Mr. Larson, who went on to write plays and librettos, predicted that he would be best remembered as the eager cub reporter for The Daily Planet on ‘Superman.’
Mrs. Bobst donated to institutions like N.Y.U., the American Cancer Society and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and served as the Lebanese delegate to the United Nations.
Mr. Levins joined Eliot Feld’s American Ballet Company as a teenager, was a principal at American Ballet Theater and had a memorable role in ‘The Turning Point.’
Mr. Patton’s keen eye for objects and their hidden significance made him a sought-after contributor to magazines including Art in America, Esquire, Smithsonian and Wired.
Yogi Berra had not been a presence around the Yankees for several years, but most around the team could not help smiling when they recounted their relationship with the Hall of Fame catcher.
A mainstay player on 10 Yankee championship teams who as a manager led the Yankees and Mets to the World Series, Berra may have been better known for his bumbling yet wise way with words.
Dr. Root was chief of pediatric orthopedics for 27 years at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, and he created a program to screen New York City children for disorders of the bones and joints.
As the director of the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institute of Health, Dr. Paul focused the government’s research programs to develop innovative therapies.
Bound up in the Thompson bagel machine is the story of Jewish assimilation, gastronomic homogenization, the decline of trade unionism and the rise of franchise retailing.
Mr. Larson, who went on to write plays and librettos, predicted that he would be best remembered as the eager cub reporter for The Daily Planet on ‘Superman.’
Mrs. Bobst donated to institutions like N.Y.U., the American Cancer Society and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and served as the Lebanese delegate to the United Nations.
