Obituaries in the news (AP)
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008AP - Anne Armstrong
AP - Anne Armstrong
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.
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.
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.
AP - Joe Beck
AP - Bruce Adler
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.
AP - Richard Egbert