Margalit Fox's Blog, page 69
February 11, 2012
W. Gunther Plaut, Rabbi and Scholar, Dies at 99
Rabbi Plaut's vast, scholarly and ardently contemporary edition of the Torah helped define Reform Judaism in late-20th-century North America.
February 7, 2012
Florence Green, Last World War I Veteran, Dies at 110
Mrs. Green, a teenage officers' mess waitress, signed up in the last months of the war and recalled the officers' courtly behavior.
February 4, 2012
Patricia Neway, 92, Soprano Who Won a Tony Award
Patricia Neway, opera singer who won a Tony in 1960 for her role as the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, dies at age 92. Photo
February 3, 2012
Dorothy Gilman, Spy Novelist, Dies at 88
Ms. Gilman was best known for her "Mrs. Pollifax" series of books about a widow who goes to work as a secret agent.
