Journalist, Farmers Market Founder John C. Hyde of Takoma Park Dies at 64 Posted on March 14th
John C. Hyde, 64, a journalist and author who established a farmers market targeted to immigrants and that allows shoppers to use food stamps and other federal food assistance coupons, died March 6 at Washington Adventist Hospital after injuring his head in a fall at his home in Takoma Park. Read moreSydney Chaplin: actor who had a successful career on Broadway
While Charlie Chaplin was carving out a niche for himself in the movie pantheon, his third son, Sydney, chose another ... Continue
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Norman C. Tischhauser, 1931-2009: Owned auto repair shop in Virgil
By trade, Norman C. Tischhauser was a skilled, nine-fingered mechanic. But he also loved to cook, and his menu ... Continue
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Barbara Parker | Mystery novelist, 62
Barbara Parker, 62, a lawyer-turned-author who wrote 12 mystery novels, died Saturday in Boca Raton, Fla., after a long illness.Read ... Continue
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Kenneth K. Takemoto Dies; National Institutes of Health Virologist
Kenneth K. Takemoto, 88, a retired virologist at the National Institutes of Health who researched viruses associated with human cancers, ... Continue
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John Rodda: veteran sports reporter at The Guardian
Although renowned as the athletics and boxing correspondent of The Guardian for more than 36 years, John Rodda had a ... Continue
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James Tillman, 1946-2009: Loyola basketball star, trucking company owner
James Tillman earned All-America basketball honors at Loyola University, where he set a single-season scoring record that stood for 15 ... Continue
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Horton Foote; dramatist won Pulitzer, 2 Oscars
Horton Foote, 92, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist who received an Academy Award for his 1962 screenplay adaptation of the novel ... Continue
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Italian sex-comedy director dies (AP)
ROME – Italian director Salvatore Samperi, best known for erotic comedies that challenged the morals of Italy's middle class, has ... Continue
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Socialite Virginia Warren Daly, 80, Dies
In the 1950s and 1960s, if Virginia Warren Daly came to your party, you had it made. Read more Continue
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João Bernardo Vieira
João Bernardo Vieira ruled the tiny West African nation of Guinea-Bissau for 22 of the past 29 years before being ... Continue
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Dr. Robert W. Ollayos, 1917-2009: Research helped babies with blood disorder
Dr. Robert W. Ollayos, 92, a longtime Elgin pediatrician whose research during the 1940s contributed to the development of lifesaving ... Continue
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Diane A. Pfaltzgraff, 71, professor
Diane A. Kressler Pfaltzgraff, 71, of Wayne, a professor at Philadelphia University for 35 years, died of melanoma ... Continue
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Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn dies at 84 (AP)
OSLO – Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn, whose unique style of blending modern forms with Scandinavian traditions earned him the prestigious ... Continue
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Pioneering Reporter Covered Vietnam War
Ann Bryan Mariano, 76, who was one of the first female combat correspondents covering the Vietnam War and who sued ... Continue
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