Margalit Fox's Blog, page 57

Robert H. Levenson, a Visionary Adman, Dies at 83

Mr. Levenson was an advertising executive who helped produce some of the mid-20th century’s most memorable campaigns for clients like Volkswagen, El Al and Sara Lee.

Pauline Phillips, Flinty Adviser to Millions as Dear Abby, Dies at 94

With her comic, tart-tongued yet fundamentally sympathetic voice, Mrs. Phillips helped wrestle the advice column from its weepy Victorian past into a hard-nosed 20th-century present.

Ralph G. Martin, a Best-Selling Biographer, Dies at 92

Mr. Martin’s subjects included Winston Churchill’s mother, Golda Meir and the Kennedys.

Celeste Bartos, New York Philanthropist, Dies at 99

Mrs. Bartos, whose gifts included support for the New York Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art, has her name on the lecture hall and education center at the library’s flagship branch.

Celeste Bartos, Patron of New York’s Cultural Landscape, Dies at 99

Mrs. Bartos, whose gifts included support for the New York Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art, has her name on the lecture hall and education center at the library’s flagship branch.

Richard Ben Cramer, Writer of Big Ambitions, Dies at 62

Mr. Cramer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was the author of “What It Takes,” an intimate, deeply reported account of the 1988 presidential election.

Harvey Shapiro, Poet and Editor, Dies at 88

In his work Mr. Shapiro examined his life as a man, a husband, a father and a Jew.

Jayne Cortez, Jazz Poet, Dies at 78

Ms. Cortez’s work embodied many categories simultaneously: written verse, African and African-American oral tradition, the discourse of political protest, and jazz and blues.

Beate Gordon, Long-Unsung Heroine of Japanese Women’s Rights, Dies at 89

Ms. Gordon almost single-handedly wrote women’s rights into the Constitution of modern Japan at 22, and then kept silent about it for decades.

Richard Adams, Same-Sex Spouse Who Sued U.S., Dies at 65

Mr. Adams legally married Tony Sullivan during a brief window in Colorado, but their lawsuit seeking federal recognition, the first of its kind, did not succeed.