Frederick Gore, who died on August 31 aged 95, was that rare thing in the art world: a prolific and successful painter who also managed to sustain several active and parallel careers, as teacher, art-school administrator and committee man. Frederick Gore - Telegraph
James Lord, who has died aged 86, became a close friend of Pablo Picasso and the artist's discarded mistress, model and muse Dora Maar; he wrote a gossipy biography of the couple as well as several memoirs that vividly portrayed the artistic scene in Paris in the years following the Second World War.
Paul Cattermole, who died on July 31 aged 67, was a leading authority on church bells and bell-ringing; he demonstrated that the sound of bells was as characteristic and evocative of everyday life in medieval England as is the call of the muezzin of Cairo or Istanbul.
John M. Stephens, a New England Patriots running back who was the 1988 offensive rookie of the year, died Tuesday after his pickup truck ran off a highway near here and struck trees. He was 43.
William Korey, who as a lobbyist on international issues for B’nai B’rith fought for the interests of Jews in the Soviet Union and helped win a long battle to get the United States to ratify the international genocide convention, died on Aug. 26 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 87.
Marie Knight, whose rich, room-filling contralto voice provided the ideal counterweight to Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s more penetrating higher register on some of the most popular gospel records of the 1940s, died Sunday in Manhattan. She was 89.
Writer Larry Gelbart, best known for his work on MASH, died today of cancer. He was 81.
Gelbart won an Emmy for his work on MASH, and a Tony for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. He also wrote Tootsie, Oh God, (and was nominated for Oscars for both) and Barbarians at the Gate (which also won an Emmy).
Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to combat world hunger, died yesterday. He was 95.
Union organizer Crystal Lee Sutton, the real life inspiration for the movie Norma Rae, died last Friday after a long battle with brain cancer. She was 68.
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