Margalit Fox's Blog, page 32
January 24, 2015
Jackie Selebi, Police Head in South Africa Convicted in Bribery Case, Dies at 64
Mr. Selebi, South Africa’s first black national police commissioner, was found guilty of taking bribes from a drug trafficker in a trial that drew immense international attention.
Jackie Selebi, South African Police Head Convicted in Corruption Case, Dies at 64
Mr. Selebi, South Africa’s first black national police commissioner, was found guilty of taking bribes from a drug trafficker in a trial that drew immense international attention.
January 23, 2015
Ward Swingle, Whose Singers Scatted Bach, Dies at 87
Mr. Swingle was a conductor and arranger whose group, the Swingle Singers, combined scat vocals with classical music.
Ward Swingle, Jazz Vocalist, Dies at 87
Mr. Swingle was a conductor and arranger whose group, the Swingle Singers, combined scat vocals with classical music.
January 18, 2015
Yoko Nagae Ceschina, Countess and Fairy Godmother to the Arts, Dies at 82
Countess Ceschina was one of the world’s foremost patrons of classical music, if also one of the least publicly known.
January 15, 2015
Elaine Summers, Who Meshed Dance and Film, Dies at 89
Ms. Summers was a dancer, choreographer and multimedia artist whose work sought to blur the boundaries between dance and film.
January 13, 2015
Al Bendich, Defender of ‘Howl’ and Lenny Bruce’s Comedy, Is Dead at 85
As a young lawyer, Mr. Bendich argued the two landmark obscenity cases, providing the legal rationales for the judge to find in favor of the defense both times.
January 10, 2015
Walter Kühr, Performer, Bandleader and Accordion Evangelist, Dies at 59
Mr. Kühr was for decades an evangelist of the accordion, as a performer, bandleader and owner of the Main Squeeze, a shop on the Lower East Side that he founded.
January 8, 2015
Walter Kühr, Accordion Evangelist, Dies at 59
Mr. Kühr was a performer, a bandleader and the owner of the Main Squeeze, a shop on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that he founded in 1996.
January 7, 2015
Lee Israel, a Writer Proudest of Her Literary Forgeries, Dies at 75
The author Ms. Israel composed and sold hundreds of letters that she said had been written by Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Lillian Hellman and others.
