Archive for July, 2008

Obituaries in the news (AP)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

AP - Anne Armstrong

Former Time managing editor Fuerbringer dies at 97 (AP)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

AP - Otto Fuerbringer, who was Time magazine’s managing editor during the turbulent 1960s when it famously asked: “Is God Dead?” on the cover and switched to opposing the Vietnam War, has died. He was 97.

Former surgeon general, Head Start director dies (AP)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

AP - Dr. Julius Richmond, the U.S. surgeon general in the Carter administration who issued a massive report labeling cigarette smoking “slow-motion suicide,” has died. He was 91.

GOP stalwart, ex-ambassador Anne Armstrong dies (AP)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

In a Sunday August 20, 1972 file photo, Anne Armstrong tries the microphone in Miami Beach's Convention Hall as she prepares to make a keynote speech at a GOP convention, the first woman ever to do so.  Armstrong, a longtime powerful Republican who served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday, July 30, 2008, her office said. She was 80.    (AP Photo, File)AP - Anne Armstrong, a longtime powerful Republican who served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday, her office said. She was 80.

Eileen Slocum, grande dame of Newport, dies at 92 (AP)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

AP - Newport society’s grande dame Eileen Slocum, who lived in a Gilded Age mansion along Millionaire’s Row and was a former national committeewoman for the Republican Party, has died at age 92.

Obituaries in the news (AP)

Monday, July 28th, 2008

AP - Joe Beck

Renowned Egyptian director Chahine dies at age 82 (AP)

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Director Youssef Chahine presents the movie 'Heya Fawda' (Chaos) competing in the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Sept. 7, 2007.  Egypt's official news agency said Sunday July 27, 2008 renowned film director Youssef Chahine has died in Cairo. He was 82. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, FILE)AP - Youssef Chahine, one of Egypt’s most lauded movie directors whose films over nearly five decades often went on Fellini-esque flights of fancy and tackled social ills and Islamic fundamentalism, died Sunday in Cairo. He was 82 years old.

Obituaries in the news (AP)

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

AP - Bruce Adler

Top jazz saxophonist Griffin dies in France at 80 (AP)

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

AP - PARIS (AP) — Jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who played with America’s greats from Thelonious Monk to Lionel Hampton but chose to live in France, died hours before a concert, his agent said Saturday. He was 80.

Obituaries in the news (AP)

Friday, July 25th, 2008

AP - Richard Egbert