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A tenured professor at Cornell with a feel for human chemistry, she found a second calling as a successful matchmaker. Almost all of her pairings...

As Nixon’s choice to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission, he protected the public from buying 25 million risky goods.

In a public confrontation, he said he was punished because he had not given a Times publishing subsidiary first rights to a book based on...

His underwater microphones recorded “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” inspiring a movement that led to national and international bans on commercial whaling.

In two decades of leadership at the publishing house, he helped remold a clubby book industry into a diversified and highly profitable corporate enterprise.

Challenging the theories of John Maynard Keynes, he questioned the idea that government intervention could help steer the economy.

For 25 years he was editor of The Concord Monitor, an award-winning go-to source every four years for national reporters covering the New Hampshire presidential...

A former milkman, he combined attentive customer service, low prices, quality goods and gimmicks, like singing cows, into a retailing phenomenon.

He wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its benefits.

The legally blind son of a janitor, he wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded...