Entries tagged as ‘vietnam’
Sylvan Fox, 79, a journalist whose beats ranged from Vietnam, to the Kennedy assassination, to a memorable plane crash, and who won a Pulitzer Prize as a newspaper rewrite man, died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007, of complications from pneumonia.
Fox won his Pulitzer Prize for being part of a team covering an airplane crash on Long Island, New York, in which all 95 passengers were killed. Fox was in the office of the now-defunct World-Telegram & Sun newspaper fielding all the field reporters’ calls and then turning out a complete story 30 minutes after the crash. He kept rewriting the article and turned in a 3,000-word piece within 90 minutes of the event. (more…)
Categories: Americans · Journalists · Musicians · Writers · new york
Tagged: Jewish, newsday, obituary, pneumonia, pulitzer, tiger-cages, vietnam
Donald G. Kurtz, 64, of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, a West Point graduate and Bronze Medal winner in the Vietnam War, died of Alzheimer’s disease Dec. 1, 2007.
Kurtz graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1965, participated in 51 combat missions on helicopters relaying information about enemy positions to pilots and won his decoration, according to his obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer. (more…)
Categories: Alzheimers · Americans · Businesspeople · Veterans
Tagged: Alzheimers, Jewish, obituary, usma, vietnam, West Point
The words have not stopped flowing since author Norman Mailer, 84, died November 10, 2007, of renal failure. He has been called a Jewish pugilist, a towering writer with a matching ego, and nothing if not ambitious.
We call him the greatest Jewish-American novelist who never wrote about Jewish subjects. It was Mailer’s ambition to get away from his upbringing as a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn that led him to a life of writing about arts and sports giants like Marilyn Monroe and Muhammad Ali, and murderers and tyrants like Gary Gilmore and Adolph Hitler, rather than subjects closer to his own origins, as his contemporaries Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud have done.
We found two pieces that captured some of Mailer’s Jewish essence, as well as all the other facets of his life.
Mailer and his work was influenced by controversial psychiatrist and sex researcher, Wilhelm Reich, whose 50th yahrzeit passed this month.
Categories: Americans · Celebrities · Hollywood · Journalists · Veterans · Writers
Tagged: ali, author, hitler, mailer, monroe, obituaries, picasso, vietnam
