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Earl Cooley Is Dead at 98; Fought Fires as Original Smoke Jumper

Earl Cooley knew that the very thought of leaping from airplanes into raging forest fires kept others awake nights. But not him. “I don’t know why, but I was never afraid to jump,” he said. On July 12, 1940, in a new Forest Service program, Mr. Cooley ...

From DOUGLAS MARTIN, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Forest Service,  Rocky Mountain News,  University of Montana,  New York Times Company

William Ganz, Catheter Inventor, Dies at 90

Dr. William Ganz, a cardiologist and medical inventor who helped develop a revolutionary catheter to measure blood flow and heart functions, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 90. The catheter, which is used more than one million times a year in the ...

From DOUGLAS MARTIN, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dr. William Ganz,  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,  Columbia University,  American College of Cardiology

US Judge Charles Sifton, 74; ruled on NYC term limits

NEW YORK - Charles P. Sifton, a federal judge in Brooklyn whose rulings paved the way for women to join the New York Fire Department and for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to run for a third term, died Monday at his home in Brooklyn. The cause was ...

From DOUGLAS MARTIN, Boston Globe,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg,  U.S. Republican Party,  Supreme Court of the United States,  Harvard University,  Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Mildred Cohn, Biochemist, Is Dead at 96

Mildred Cohn, a biochemist who overcame religious and sex discrimination to advance the study of metabolic processes, research that contributed to the development of medical technologies like M.R.I.’s, died on Oct. 12 in Philadelphia. She was 96. Dr. ...

From DOUGLAS MARTIN, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington University in St. Louis,  Heritage Foundation,  Columbia University,  NASA,  George Washington University

Charles P. Sifton, Judge in City Case on Term Limits, Dies at 74

Charles P. Sifton, a federal judge in Brooklyn whose rulings paved the way for women to join the New York Fire Department and for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to run for a third term, died Monday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 74. The cause was ...

From DOUGLAS MARTIN, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg,  U.S. Republican Party,  Harvard University,  Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  Reinhold Niebuhr

Robert Rines, Inventor and Monster Hunter, Dies at 87

Dollars to doughnuts, Robert H. Rines will be mainly remembered not for holding more than 800 patents, starting a law school or writing music for the stage, but for his dogged pursuit of the Loch Ness monster. The monster Robert Rines pursued, as ...

From DOUGLAS MARTIN, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Franklin Pierce,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  FORTUNE Magazine,  Albert Einstein

Michael Ronis, Manhattan Chef, Dies at 60

Michael Ronis, who helped conceive Carmine’s, an Italian restaurant that lures masses of New Yorkers and out-of-towners to Times Square and the Upper West Side with gargantuan portions and moderate prices, died last Thursday in Greenwich, Conn. He was 6 ...

From DOUGLAS MARTIN, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Drew Nieporent

Elmer Winter, co-founder of Manpower, dies at age 97

MEQUON, Wis. — Elmer Winter, whose bad day at the office spurred him and his law partner to start Manpower, the worldwide temp agency, died Oct. 22. He was 97 and lived in Fox Point, Wis. Manpower announced the death. In April 1948, Winter and his ...

From DOUGLAS MARTIN, Denver Post,  2 Nov 2009

John de J. Pemberton Jr., ACLU leader during 1960s

NEW YORK - John de J. Pemberton Jr., who as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union during the turbulent 1960s helped double its size and shift its focus to the criminal courts as an arena for issues like civil rights and Vietnam, died ...

From DOUGLAS MARTIN, Boston Globe,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: American Civil Liberties Union,  John Pemberton,  New York Times Company,  Adam Clayton

Elmer Winter, 97, Co-Founder of Manpower Temp Agency, Dies

Elmer Winter, whose very bad day at the office he and his law partner madly scrambled to find emergency secretarial help spurred them to start Manpower, the worldwide temp agency, died Thursday in Mequon, Wis. He was 97 and lived in Fox Point, Wis. In ...

From DOUGLAS MARTIN, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: University of Wisconsin,  Kelly Services, Inc.,  New York Times Company

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