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 ...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, novelist of bold heroines, dies at 91
Barbara Taylor Bradford, a British American novelist who debuted in 1979 with “A Woman of Substance,” a rags-to-riches tale that she followed with more than 30 bestsellers, mostly about women ...
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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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Fred R. Harris, Oklahoma senator on Kerner Commission, dies at 94
Former senator Fred R. Harris, a liberal prairie populist from Oklahoma whose meteoric rise in politics ended in the 1970s with two sputtering presidential campaigns in which he vowed to “take ...
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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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M. Jodi Rell, former governor of Connecticut, dies at 78
Former Connecticut governor M. Jodi Rell, who became the second female governor in state history after her predecessor resigned amid a corruption scandal, died Nov. 20 at a hospital in Florida ...
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Alice Brock, namesake of Arlo Guthrie’s ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ dies at 83
On Thanksgiving Day in 1965, two young guests visiting Alice Brock and her husband, Ray, repaid the hospitality by helping clean up an old church that the couple had converted into their home in ...
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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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John Robinson, who coached USC to four Rose Bowl titles, dies at 89
Survivors include his wife, Beverly; four children; two stepchildren; and 10 grandchildren. Washington Post staff contributed to this report.
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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 ...
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Quincy Jones, musical innovator and impresario, dies at 91
“A lot of the language we use is food related,” Bruce Swedien, Mr. Jones’s longtime sound engineer, told The Washington Post in 1996 ... version of this obituary incorrectly attributed ...
'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 ...