Samuel Steinfeld, 101, a former chief justice of Kentucky’s highest court, died Nov. 22, 2007.
“My dad was dedicated to anything that he went into,” whether it was the law, politics, civic leadership or his family, his son, James Steinfeld, told the Louisville Courier-Journal. “He loved the law, I can tell you that.”
Steinfeld was elected to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, then Kentucky’s highest court, in 1966. (more…)
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Julius Harry “Jack” Kuney, 88, U.S., a pioneering TV producer, died Nov. 7, 2007, in Bradenton, Fla. The Chicago native produced plays such as “Waiting for Godot, and programs with Mel Brooks, Burgess Meredith, and Zero Mostel, among others. A satirical program he produced written by Woody Allen was pulled just before it aired by Public Broadcasting Service in 1971 because it was deemed too political.
Kuney was born in Chicago on July 24,1919. Kuney’s first wife, the former Francine Apfelbaum, a dancer known professionally as Francine Ames, died in 1997. He is survived by his second wife, Margaret Ferren Kuney; a son, Scott, of West Nyack, N.Y., his daughter, Jo Ellen Kuney, and two grandchildren. (more…)
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