Man walked rainy highway for hours to help stranger find lost funeral notes
Arnie Dienoff was headed to a Sunday afternoon estate sale in St. Charles, Missouri, when he spotted a bright yellow notebook ...
Musk and Ramaswamy race to build a ‘DOGE’ team for war with Washington
The Tesla executive and the former presidential candidate are meeting with staff and interviewing experts as they plan for ...
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Henry Taylor, prize-winning poet with an eye on rural life, dies at 82
And the deepest things when they bubble to the surface tend to stir the strongest urges to write,” he told The Washington Post in 1986, reflecting on his rural hometown after winning the ...
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Bela Karolyi, who coached gymnasts to Olympic gold, dies at 82
Bela Karolyi, the uncompromising gymnastics coach who guided Romanian and American athletes to Olympic gold, but whose decades-long career was tarnished by criticism of his autocratic methods and ...
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Thomas Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC computer language, dies at 96
Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...
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Clifton Wharton Jr., barrier-breaking leader in academia and business, dies at 98
Clifton R. Wharton Jr., who shattered racial barriers in a multifaceted career in education, international development and business, serving as the first Black president of a major, predominantly ...
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Arthur Frommer, whose guidebooks revolutionized budget travel, dies at 95
“I was fascinated to see how trivial their experiences were, compared with mine,” Mr. Frommer told The Washington Post in 1987 about luxury travelers. “I felt angry. I felt superio ...
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Roy Haynes, influential drummer with a vibrant style, dies at 99
Roy Haynes, a jazz drummer who ignited the rhythmic fire on landmark performances by Charlie Parker, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny, and inspired countless other musicians by expanding the musical ...
'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' resurrects a once-forgotten anti-apartheid photographer
When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted ...
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Richard Cash, championed ‘simple’ therapy to overcome cholera, dies at 83
During a cholera outbreak in 1968 in villages east of Dhaka, two young public health specialists began giving desperately ill patients liter after liter of a simple formula: salt and sugar ...
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Lou Donaldson, saxophonist who helped shape jazz, dies at 98
Lou Donaldson, an alto saxophonist with a supple, earthy style who was a key figure in the development of three styles of jazz from the 1940s to the 1960s and sustained a career for almost seven ...
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Jim Hoagland, Pulitzer-winning voice on world affairs, dies at 84
Jim Hoagland, a Washington Post journalist whose intrepid reporting and erudite columns were twice honored with the Pulitzer Prize and made him for decades a leading voice in world affairs ...