Ann Gish Phillips Dies at 70; Designed and Sold Luxury Bedding
Ann Gish Phillips, a bedding and textiles designer whose luxury home goods company sold more than 1,500 products in stores
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Elliot Roberts, Longtime Neil Young Manager, Dead at 76
Elliot Roberts, who managed the careers of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty and many classic-rock legends, died Friday at
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Philippe Zdar, French Producer and Cassius Member, Dead at 50
Philippe Zdar, a member of French electronic duo Cassius and a prominent producer, has died, Pitchfork reports. He was 50.
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Baby Jane Dexter, Singer Who Knew Heartbreak, Dies at 72
Baby Jane Dexter, who captivated cabaret audiences with a booming contralto and, after a decade-long hiatus, returned with heartbreaking and
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Bob Hawke, Who Led Australia Into a New Era as Prime Minister, Dies at 89
Bob Hawke, Australia’s hugely popular prime minister from 1983 to 1991, who presided over wrenching changes that integrated his nation
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Ellen Tauscher, Congresswoman and Diplomat, Is Dead at 67
Ellen Tauscher, a centrist Democrat from California who served in Congress for 13 years before becoming a diplomat in the
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Martin Kilson, Scholar and Racial Pathbreaker at Harvard, Dies at 88
Martin Kilson, a leftist scholar, fierce debater and follower of W. E. B. Du Bois who became the first tenured
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Ira Neimark, Bergdorf Executive Who Put Fashion First, Dies at 97
Ira Neimark, who started in retail as a department store pageboy and went on to build Bergdorf Goodman into the
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John L’Heureux, Whose Novels Wrestled With Faith, Dies at 84
John L’Heureux, a prolific author and former Jesuit priest whose fiction grappled with matters of morality, redemption and transcendence, died
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Ralph Solecki, Who Found Humanity in Neanderthals, Dies at 101
Ralph Solecki, an archaeologist whose research helped debunk the view of Neanderthals as heartless and brutish half-wits and inspired a
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Ralph Metzner, LSD and Consciousness Researcher, Dies at 82
Ralph Metzner, a psychotherapist who began his career working with Timothy Leary on controversial studies at Harvard involving LSD and
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