I used to live in New Castle but moved away about 23 years ago. I check the obituaries a few times a week. I am so old that most of the people in the obituaries are younger than I am. I wish that in the lists of deaths that you would include the maiden names of women in the...
…before I close out this lead story, I came across this obituary for Edward Angly in the Dec. 8, 1951 edition of The New York Times. Note that this clip also features the funeral notice for New Yorker founding editor Harold Ross. * * * Name Your Fears Irish writer and critic Ernest...
a producer of industrial and advertising films, Castle Films would become a subsidiary of Universal and would go on to make a line of science-fiction and horror films including The Wolf Man, The Mummy, and Creature from the Black Lagoon. …on to our cartoons, Alain took on the recent ...
…before I close out this lead story, I came across this obituary for Edward Angly in the Dec. 8, 1951 edition of The New York Times. Note that this clip also features the funeral notice for New Yorker founding editor Harold Ross. * * * Name Your Fears Irish writer and critic Ernest...
Please make it stop. I don’t mean the deaths. I mean when a singer/songwriter/actor ceases to breathe, can we please have an announcement and amodestobituary? How about five to eight hundred words? On the back pages? Yes. Even for Leonard Cohen. I was a big fan of Cohen. But his...
Today I will turn to Moses and Mathilde Rothschild’s fourth childGertrude RothschildLancellotti/Lancelotand her family and their lives from 1930 onward. I have records for most of the vital information, except that I cannot find a death record or obituary or any other information about the deat...
a mangy dog sneaking into a cathedral; a flock of sheep on a hillside near a ruined castle; an old woman drinking milk next to a statue of Pushkin; a girl spilling a tin of mints, “white and sudden / as a mouthful of teeth,” near a “chipping yellow wall” in the shadow of Cl...
[ Liam Payne obituary: Pop icon who remained an enigmaOpens in new window ] Waiter Paiz told an Argentinian TV journalist last month he had consumed marijuana and Liam had taken cocaine during their second hotel rendezvous shortly before the singer’s death. But he i...
…before I close out this lead story, I came across this obituary forEdward Anglyin the Dec. 8, 1951 edition ofThe New York Times. Note that this clip also features the funeral notice forNew Yorkerfounding editorHarold Ross. * * * ...
In his “A Reporter at Large” column,Morris Markeypenned a lengthy account of Fox Movietone’s coverage of the SSMorro Castledisaster. En route from Havana to New York City on Sept. 8, 1934, the luxury liner caught fire near the New Jersey coast. Due to the ship’s design and the ...