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Herbert J. Miller Jr., 85, Justice Dept. Leader, Dies

Herbert J. Miller Jr., who as a Justice Department lawyer in the 1960s relentlessly pursued James R. Hoffa, the president of the Teamsters Union, on jury-tampering and other charges, and later helped negotiate the unconditional pardon of former ...

From WILLIAM GRIMES, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Department of Justice,  U.S. Republican Party,  James R. Hoffa,  U.S. Senate,  Robert F. Kennedy

Jeanne-Claude, Collaborator With Christo on a Grand Canvas, Dies at 74

Jeanne-Claude, who collaborated with her husband, Christo, on dozens of environmental arts projects, notably the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and the installation of 7,503 vinyl gates with saffron-colored nylon panels ...

From WILLIAM GRIMES, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Bobby Frankel, 68, Trainer of Champion Horses, Dies

Bobby Frankel, one of the most successful American thoroughbred trainers of the last 40 years, whose horses included the champions Bertrando, Ghostzapper and Empire Maker, the winner of the 2003 Belmont Stakes, died Monday at his home in Pacific ...

From WILLIAM GRIMES, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bobby Frankel,  Belmont Stakes,  Ron Anderson,  Robert J. Frankel,  Chad Brown

Earl Coleman, 93; founded translation firm

NEW YORK - Earl M. Coleman was a fledgling short-story writer and poet fresh out of the Army when he got the idea for a custom translation business in 1946. At a poetry workshop he organized, he got to talking with two students, one a French teacher, ...

From WILLIAM GRIMES, Boston Globe,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Commerce Department

Earl Coleman, Publisher and Poet, Dies at 93

Earl M. Coleman was a fledgling short-story writer and poet fresh out of the Army when he got the idea for a custom translation business in 1946. At a poetry workshop he organized, he got to talking with two students, one a French teacher, the other a ...

From WILLIAM GRIMES, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Commerce Department,  Robert Maxwell,  New York University,  Dennis Scott

Donald Harington, novelist of surrealism in the Ozarks

NEW YORK - Donald Harington, who created a surreal rural miniworld in more than a dozen novels set in the fictional Ozark hamlet of Stay More, Ark., died of complications of pneumonia Saturday in Springdale, Ark. He was 73. Mr. Harington, who never ...

From WILLIAM GRIMES, Boston Globe,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Donald Harington,  U.S. Democratic Party,  William Faulkner,  Harvard University,  William Styron

Donald Harington, Ozark Surrealist, Dies at 73

Donald Harington, who created a surreal rural mini-world in more than a dozen novels set in the fictional Ozark hamlet of Stay More, Ark., died Saturday in Springdale, Ark. He was 73 and lived in Fayetteville, Ark. The latest on the arts, coverage of ...

From WILLIAM GRIMES, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Donald Harington,  U.S. Democratic Party,  William Faulkner,  Harvard University,  William Styron

Evelyn Hofer, Subtle Photographer of People and Places, Dies at 87

Evelyn Hofer, a photographer whose searching, exactingly composed portraits imparted a grave serenity to her human and architectural subjects and who collaborated on a renowned series of travel books with eminent writers in the 1950s and 1960s, died on ...

From WILLIAM GRIMES, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mary McCarthy,  New-York Historical Society,  Robert Frank,  Saul Steinberg,  New York Times Company

John Mashek, Veteran Political Reporter, Is Dead at 77

John W. Mashek, a reporter and columnist who covered national politics for nearly half a century for U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe and other publications, died Tuesday in Rockville, Md. He was 77 and lived in Washington. The apparent cause ...

From WILLIAM GRIMES, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U S News & World Report,  White House,  Boston Globe,  Lyndon B. Johnson,  Sam Rayburn

Nien Cheng, Memoirist, Is Dead at 94

Nien Cheng, whose memoir, “Life and Death in Shanghai,” offered a harrowing account of the Cultural Revolution in China and her years of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Red Guards, died last Monday at her home in Washington. She was 94. ...

From WILLIAM GRIMES, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Los Angeles Times,  Washington Post Company,  Chiang Kai-shek

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