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L.Q. Jones, Who Played Heavies With a Light Touch, Dies at 94
His face was familiar, mostly in westerns, during a career than spanned five decades. He also directed the cult film “A Boy and His Dog.”
Adam Wade, Network Game Show Pioneer, Is Dead at 87
As a singer, he had three Top 10 hits in 1961. As an actor, he had a long career in film and on television. As...
Sharon Oster, Barrier-Breaking Economist, Dies at 73
She was the first woman to win tenure as a professor at the Yale School of Management and the first woman to be named its...
Ron Rice, Creator of Hawaiian Tropic Lotion, Is Dead at 81
A poor, pale mountain boy who became smitten with the beach, he mixed some ingredients in a garbage can and found his place in the...
E. Gerald Corrigan, Who Helped Ease ’87 Stock Crash, Dies at 80
As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he favored flooding the financial system with cash to restore confidence among investors.
Val Broeksmit, Who Blew the Whistle on Deutsche Bank, Dies at 46
An itinerant musician, he leaked secret files to F.B.I. investigators looking at the bank’s ties to money laundering, the Trump Organization and Russia.
George D. Gould, a Pillar in N.Y.’s Fiscal Rescue, Dies at 94
As a Republican Wall Street financier recruited by Mayor Beame, he helped make the city’s effort to restore stability more credible.
John Roach, Pioneer of the Personal Computer, Is Dead at 83
He helped make the home computer ubiquitous by introducing the fully assembled Tandy TRS-80, which was so novel at the time that it became a...
Jack Willis, TV Producer and Empathetic Filmmaker, Dies at 87
A survivor of a crippling accident, his documentaries and news coverage for public television focused on poverty, race and other social issues.
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., Dissector of Old Money, Dies at 86
In books and articles, he unsparingly scrutinized an American aristocracy that he knew intimately.